The essays collected in this volume reflect the remarkable analytical scope and geographical range of their author engaging fully with the debates over the politics of gender as well as appraising womens movements in widely varying societies. Most chapters deal directly with Latin American issues and experiences including anarchist feminism in the nineteenthcentury Argentina the politics of gender and those of abortion in Sandinista Nicaragua the role of the official Cuban womens organisation in the 1990s and appraisals of the relations between gender citizenship and state formation in twentiethcentury Latin America.... the work of an original and candid scholar ... Enlightening and refreshing this book should be read by anyone concerned with contemporary questions of citizenship and social membershipMatthew C. Gutman Brown UniversityThis is an important book about big concepts political interests social activism in authoritarian states revolution and democracyL. D. Bush University of Pittsburgh... this book definitively distinguishes Molyneux as one of the leading contemporary thinkers in the fieldSylvia Chant London School of Economics