Guatemaltecas or Market Structure and Foreign Trade

Guatemaltecas: The Women's Movement, 1986-2003

Author: Susan A A Berger

"This book will, in time, become one of the core classics in the literature on women's movements in Latin America. . . . The scholarship is first rate."

—Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, California State University, Long Beach

After thirty years of military rule and state-sponsored violence, Guatemala reinstated civilian control and began rebuilding democratic institutions in 1986. Responding to these changes, Guatemalan women began organizing to gain an active role in the national body politic and restructure traditional relations of power and gender. This pioneering study examines the formation and evolution of the Guatemalan women's movement and assesses how it has been affected by, and has in turn affected, the forces of democratization and globalization that have transformed much of the developing world.

Susan Berger pursues three hypotheses in her study of the women's movement. She argues that neoliberal democratization has led to the institutionalization of the women's movement and has encouraged it to turn from protest politics to policy work and to helping the state impose its neoliberal agenda. She also asserts that, while the influences of dominant global discourses are apparent, local definitions of femininity, sexuality, and gender equity and rights have been critical to shaping the form, content, and objectives of the women's movement in Guatemala. And she identifies a counter-discourse to globalization that is slowly emerging within the movement. Berger's findings vigorously reveal the manifold complexities that have attended the development of theGuatemalan women's movement.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Face-off : gender, democratization, and globalization	1
Ch. 2	Inside (and) out : home, work, and organizing	19
Ch. 3	La goma elastica : codifying and institutionalizing women in postwar Guatemala	41
Ch. 4	T is for Tortillera? : sexual minorities and identity politics	61
Ch. 5	The "swallow industries" : flight, consumption, and indigestion	77
Ch. 6	Countering discourse : toward resistance	97

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Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy

Author: Elhanan Helpman

Market Structure and Foreign Trade presents a coherent theory of trade in the presence of market structures other than perfect competition. The theory it develops explains trade patterns, especially of industrial countries, and provides an integration between trade and the role of multinational enterprises.

Relating current theoretical work to the main body of trade theory, Helpman and Krugman review and restate known results and also offer entirely new material on contestable markets, oligopolies, welfare, and multinational corporations, and new insights on external economies, intermediate inputs, and trade composition.

Elhanan Helpman is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University. Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics at MIT