Marysa Navarro is Charles Collis Professor of History and chair of the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She has written a biography of Eva Peron, on the feminist movement in Latin America, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, and on women and democracy in Latin America.
Virginia Sa(accute)nchez Korrol is professor and chairperson of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and director of the Center for Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She has written numerous book chapters on U. S. Latinas. She is best known for From Colonia to Community: The History of
Puerto Ricans in New York City. More recently she co-edited Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage.
Kecia Ali is in Duke University's graduate program in religion. She is the author of "The Historiography of Women in Modern Latin America: An Overview and Bibliography of the Recent Literature" in the Duke University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies working paper series.
Indiana University Press

Series Editors' Preface
Authors' Preface
Glossary
Maps
Chronology
Series Editors' Introduction
Introduction 1
Pt. I. Women in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean 5
Pt. II. Women in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean 59
Sources 107
Notes on Contributors 121
Index 123

Para los estudiosos del tema femenino el libro ofrece un resumen sobre como las mujeres latinoamericanas lograron su independencia económica y política desde la época precolombina hasta el siglo 20. Lo más interesante es que provee los nombres de mujeres pioneras en las luchas femíneas, algo que otros libros sobre el tema obvian o generalizan. Buena herramienta para iniciar una investigación.