Taking Back the Streets Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy

Name: Taking Back the Streets Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy
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ISBN: 9780520236493

ISBN-10: 0520236491

ISBN-13: 9780520236493

Edition: 2003

Authors: Temma Kaplan

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Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way. In the hope of changing the way politics is done, they called officials to account for atrocities they had committed and unjust laws they had upheld. They attempted to drive authoritarian governments from power by publicizing the activities these officials tried to hide. This powerful book takes us into the midst of these movements to give us a close-up look at how a new generation bore…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Taking Back the Streets



Staying Alive through Struggle



Pots and Pans Will Break My Bones



Democracy in the Country and in the Streets



Searching and Remembering



Memory through Mobilization



Youth Finds a Way



Demonstrating to Remember in Spain


Epilogue: Mobilizing for Democracy


Notes


Index