From The Revolution To The Maquiladoras Gender, Labor, And Globalization In Nicaragua

"Jennifer Bickham Mendez provides a nuanced ethnography that does not simply assert the gendered intricacies of local and global political-economic processes but artfully traces their unfolding in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. She reveals the organizational and discursive possibilities presented through the international feminist and human rights movements and also elucidates the constraints and tensions across local political hierarchies of organized labor, state bureaucracies, and a national/regional women's movement fractured along class lines. Mendez's analysis of MEC and the wider regional Network provides a powerful lens on the range of tactics, coping mechanisms, and organizational strategies currently being enacted on a stage that is simultaneously local, regional, and global."-Carla Freeman, author ofHigh Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the CaribbeanMendez, Jennifer Bickham is the author of 'From The Revolution To The Maquiladoras Gender, Labor, And Globalization In Nicaragua', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822335658 and ISBN 0822335654.