Documentos del Feminismo En Puerto Rico: Fascimiles de La Historia 1970-""1979

Puerto Rican feminists and academics Rivera Lass n and Crespo Kebler have compiled a groundbreaking collection of works about a crucial episode in the history of the Puerto Rican feminist movement. During the 1970s, in an attempt to end the doble-jornada (""double-workday"") paradigm (to work both in and outside the house), Puerto Rican women organized to demand a family reform act, labor law reform, and better working conditions. Their efforts would later become the catalyst to other Latin American feminist movements during the 1980s. With a prolog by Magaly Pineda, a pivotal figure in Latin American feminism, as well as a rigorous analysis of the documents included, this collection is critical to understanding the history of feminism in the region and, most importantly, of the Latin American feminist psyche. Moreover, considering that one of the most important tasks of feminist activists, women's studies librarians, filmmakers, feminist organizations, and others has been to obtain and disseminate information about their cause, this collection is crucial because it allows other feminists in the region to share these pioneering women's ideas. Highly recommended for academic libraries as well as for bookstores with women's studies collections. Lourdes V zquez, Rutgers Univ. Libs., New Brunswick, NJ