Personal Occupations: Women's Responses to U.S. Military Occupations in Latin America

It may be tempting to conclude that occupations in Latin America were crucial stepping-stones for the development of women's political consciousness and organization. Certainly, the presence of foreign troops did prompt some women into political action, channel others into the paid workforce an...

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Published in:	The Historian (Kingston) Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 568 - 598
Main Author:	McPherson, Alan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Malden, USA Taylor & Francis 22-09-2010 Blackwell Publishing Inc Wiley Periodicals, Inc Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Beliefs, opinions and attitudes Colonialism Feminism Hispanic people History Insurgency Latin Americans Marine Corps Men Military aspects Military occupation Military occupations Nationalism Navies Occupations Patriotism Social aspects United States foreign relations War Women Womens rights movements Working women United States Latin America
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Summary:	It may be tempting to conclude that occupations in Latin America were crucial stepping-stones for the development of women's political consciousness and organization. Certainly, the presence of foreign troops did prompt some women into political action, channel others into the paid workforce and the professions, and flood new markets with U.S. goods and cultural influences that intensified overlapping tensions of gender, race, class, and generation. Yet occupations may also have halted incipient women's movements, replacing them with more "urgent" anti-occupation struggles.
Bibliography:	istex:3892DD8FB489DA63697044EACEC4CCE9ECCD39C1 ark:/67375/WNG-B9TPC0V5-J ArticleID:HISN271 Yankee No! Anti‐Americanism in U.S.‐Latin American Relations He would like to thank Roxanna Dunbar‐Ortiz and Marysa Navarro for reading versions of this article. Alan McPherson is ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945 and
ISSN:	0018-2370 1540-6563
DOI:	10.1111/j.1540-6563.2010.00271.x