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The labor of love and bread: Professionalized and volunteer activism in the Sao Paulo women's health movement.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The labor of love and bread: Professionalized and volunteer activism in the Sao Paulo women's health movement./
Author:	Lebon, Nathalie.
Description:	390 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3521.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9905981
ISBN:	9780599035713

The labor of love and bread: Professionalized and volunteer activism in the Sao Paulo women's health movement.
Lebon, Nathalie.

The labor of love and bread: Professionalized and volunteer activism in the Sao Paulo women's health movement. - 390 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3521.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1998.

In the past 10 years, many professionalized organizations, also referred to as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), have been formed in the Brazilian women's movement. This study examines the origins of this trend, linked to the boom of NGOs worldwide, to the return of formal democracy in Brazil in 1985, and to the still limited absorption by the international development establishment of part of the women's movement agenda, as well as to changes internal to the movement. Based on ethnographic research, this study compares the collective identity, practices and internal dynamics of two professionalized and two volunteer groups dealing with women's health in Sao Paulo. This study demonstrates that the women's movement is best understood as a social movement field with heterogeneous participants. Feminist NGOs are one of them. Yet, their organizational characteristics distinguish NGOs from classic social movement organizations. In search of the efficiency and management capability required by the logic of projects financed by donor agencies, NGOs have a more formalized and differentiated internal structure, less permeable for neighborhood women. The presence of extrinsic rewards alters the meaning of members' participation in feminist NGOs which becomes simultaneously a commitment for gendered social change and a means for earning a living. NGOs have an hybrid identity. Their emphasis on planning, linked to accountability to donors for funded projects, tends to steer NGOs away from, and to limit their potential for, consciousness-raising and mobilization. Yet, it stimulates publications, research activities and advocacy in policy-making arenas, a shift already promoted by the transition towards formal democracy. As a result, professionalized feminists have tended to reduce their involvement with Sao Paulo neighborhood women's groups. With professionalization, the movement also faces new challenges in terms of increased power differentials.

ISBN: 9780599035713Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The labor of love and bread: Professionalized and volunteer activism in the Sao Paulo women's health movement.
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