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- Title
WALKING WITH LATINAS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE.
- Authors
Meyler, Deanna; Peña, Milagros
- Abstract
This article focuses on El Centro Mujeres de la Esperanza (Women's Center of Hope, or CME), a faith-based nongovernmental women's organization serving women living along the U.S.-Mexico border in greater El Paso/Ciudad Juárez. The center has brought together Catholic sisters and women on both sides of the border in the pursuit of common goals toward social justice. The authors began their study with archival data and participant observation at CME, and then analyzed newsletters, pamphlets, flyers, and interviews conducted with two of the center's leaders. As Meyler and Peña show, analyzing these sources helps us understand how faith-based organizations like CME fit into a pattern of gender and ethnic activism that empower Latinas.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; RELIGIONS -- Social aspects; WOMEN'S societies &; clubs; ACTIVISTS; ACTIVISM; NONPROFIT organizations; NONPROFIT organizations -- Services for; MEXICAN foreign relations; INTERNATIONAL economic relations
- Publication
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press), 2008, Vol 24, Issue 2, p97
- ISSN
8755-4178
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/FSR.2008.24.2.97