Kathryn Lynn Stoner's Books

From the House to the Streets

The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940

By: Kathryn Lynn Stoner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From the House to the Streets

The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940

By: Kathryn Lynn Stoner

From the House to the Streets is the first study on feminists and the feminist movement in Cuba between 1902 and 1940. In the four decades following its independence form Spain in 1898, Cuba adopted the most progressive legislation for women in the western hemisphere. K. Lynn Stoner explains how a small group of women and men helped to shape broad legal reforms: she describes their campaigns, the version of feminism they adopted with all its contradictions, and contrasts it to the model of feminism North Americans were transporting to Cuba. Stoner draws on rich primary sources—texts, personal letters, journal essays, radio broadcasts, memoirs from women’s congresses—which allow these women to speak in their own voices. In reconstructing the mentalité of Cuban feminists, who came primarily from a privileged social status, Stoner shows how feminism drew from traditional notions of femininity and a rejection of gender equality to advance a cause that assumed women’s expanded roles were necessary for social progress. She also examines the values of the progressive male politicians who supported feminists and worked to change Cuban laws.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822381680

ISBN 13

9780822381686

Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Kathryn A. Sloan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Kathryn A. Sloan

This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century. From the colonial period to the present day, women across the Caribbean and Latin America were an intrinsic part of the advancement of society and helped determine the course of history. Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights their varied and important roles over five centuries of time, providing geographical breadth and ethnic diversity to the Women's Roles through History series. Women's roles are the focus of all six chapters, covering themes that include religion, family, law, politics, culture, and labor. Each section provides specific examples of real-life women throughout history, providing readers with an overview of Latin American women's history that pays special attention to continuity across regions and variances over time and geography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798216167570

Local Heroes

The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Local Heroes

The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. Its goal is to explain why some of the new political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others. Using newly available economic, political, and sociological data to test various theories of democratization and institutional performance, Stoner-Weiss finds that traditional theories are unable to explain variations in regional government performance in Russia. Local Heroes argues that the legacy of the former economic system influenced the operation of new political institutions in important and often unexpected ways. Past institutional structures, specifically the concentration of the regional economy, promoted the formation of political and economic coalitions within a new proto-democratic institutional framework. These coalitions have had positive effects on governmental performance. For democratic theorists, this may be a surprising conclusion. However, it is possible, as Stoner-Weiss suggests, that the needs of democratic development may be different in the short run than in the long run. The "local heroes" of today may be impediments to the further development of democracy tomorrow. This provocative work, solidly grounded in research and theory, will interest anyone concerned with issues of economic and political transition.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691228043

ISBN 13

9780691228044

Resisting the State

Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Resisting the State

Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Why do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

160

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139455710

ISBN 13

9781139455718

Book's by Kathryn Lynn Stoner

From the House to the Streets

From the House to the Streets

Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean

Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean

Local Heroes

Local Heroes

Resisting the State

Resisting the State

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email