Julie Shayne is Principal Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell and Affiliate Associate Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Washington Seattle. She is the author of They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism and The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba.

Acknowledgments

Foreword: The Thing about Taking Risks
Margaret Randall

Introduction: Research, Risk, and Activism: Feminists' Stories of Social Justice
Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle

Del Cielo los Vieron Llegar/From the Sky They Saw Them Coming
Nora Patrich

Part 1. Texts, Stories, and Activism

Introduction to Part 1: Texts, Stories, and Activism
Jessica Monteiro Manfredi

1. Writing and Activism
Carmen Rodríguez

2. Absence in Memories: Reading Stories of Survival in Argentina
Mahala Lettvin

3. Chilean Exiles and Their Feminist Stories
Julie Shayne

4. Navigating the Cuban Ideological Divide: Research on the Independent Libraries Movement
Marisela Fleites-Lear

Part 2. Performed Stories of Social Justice

Introduction to Part 2: Performed Stories of Social Justice
Jessica Monteiro Manfredi

5. We Also Built the City of Medellín: Deplazadas' Family Albums as Feminist Archival Activism
Tamera Marko

6. Who Owns the Archive? Community Media in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez
Robin Garcia

7. Echoes of Injustice: Performative Activism and the Femicide Plaguing Ciudad Juárez
Christina Marín

Part 3. Activist Stories from the Grassroots

Introduction to Part 3: Activist Stories from the Grassroots
Julie Shayne

8. Feminist Tensions: Race, Sex Work, and Women's Activism in Bahia
Erica Lorraine Williams

9. Latina Battered Immigrants, Citizenship, and Inequalities: Reflections on Activist Research
Roberta Villalón

10. Rural Feminism and Revolution in Nicaragua: Voices of the Compañeras
Shelly Grabe

Conclusion: Interdisciplinarity and Privilege
Julie Shayne and Kristy Lessle

Afterword: Mother's Day
Julie Shayne

Contributors
Index