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"An immensely valuable and detailed analysis of foreign, mainly American, assistance to Latin American higher education, To Export Progress provides an understanding of the 'what' and the 'why' of foreign aid to a key sector. This book will be a classic in its field." -- Philip G. Altbach, Monan Professor of Higher Education, Boston College"Professor Daniel C. Levy, a leading authority in the field of higher education and the nonprofit sector in Latin America, once again has opened an otherwise neglected

The dictatorships of the Southern Cone implemented egregious neoliberal states in the late 20th century; the military regimes resorted to practices of torture, disappearance, and death to eliminate the political opposition. Drawing from Michel Foucault's definition of biopolitics which establishes that modernity places the biological at the center of the political realm, I analyze how the new modalities of power excluded political activists, women, indigenous, and the indigent. Through the dissertation I demonstrate that the dictatorships and post-dictatorships were both guided by the same principles of biopolitics. An important element in the development of biopolitics was the deployment of sexuality; therefore I explore the relationship of patriarchy and authoritarianism in an effort to find forms of resistance. I develop my analysis through the works of Damiela Eltit, Luisa Valenzuela, Marco Bechis, Alonso Cueto, and Claudia Llosa; their representations trespass the boundaries of normative behaviors providing new forms of subjectivity.

Since its inception three decades ago, the Fulbright program in Latin America has aided individual students and Latin American educational institutions alike. The binational Fulbright commissions that select participants have earned a reputation for autonomy and fairness and have encouraged innovative programs such as cost sharing, state-of-the-art seminars, and flexible tenure provisions for U.S. scholars teaching in Latin America. As the U.S. and Latin American university systems have increasingly converged, Fulbright has also helped to introduce and promote such U.S. concepts as university-based research and decentralized higher education, as well as Latin American university commitment to social outreach. Yet some problems remain. These include competition from European and Soviet exchange programs, inadequate contact among Fulbright scholars now in the United States, and failure to maintain contact with Fulbright alumni once they have returned home. Further institution building in the Latin American educational sector also deserves greater support. The existing binational commissions provide an excellent model for the cooperation needed to address these problems, and they underscore the important role that Fulbright can continue to play in Latin America.

The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower class for hundreds of years, tanning became a fad in the early 1920s and remains popular today. The tan, though, was much more than a matter of fashion,enjoying at first a boost from the medical establishment. Opinions ranging from hard science to quackery lauded the suntan as something of a panacea. Near the end of World War II, however, researchers increasingly warned against the hazards of overexposure to the sun, and a large new industry developed--sunscreen. Americans' current paradoxical obsessio

The author believes that since its inception three decades ago, the Fulbright programme in Latin America has aided individual students and Latin American educational institutions alike. This programme has helped to introduce and promote such US concepts as university-based research and decentralized higher education in Latin America. Competition from European and Soviet exchange programmes for the Fulbright programme is pointed out

Courtship, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, remarriage, and bereavement: family transitions in the 20th century -- How families lived -- Work and family life -- Rituals: how families developed and maintained shared meanings -- Mothers and motherhood -- Men in families -- Children and adolescents in families -- Family abuse and neglect: the dark side of families -- Alternative family forms

Rational choice models predict that political competition and political participation have opposite effects on the size of government. We investigate these theories using data from a panel of 18 Latin American countries during the 20th century. Our research builds evidence for the prediction that reforms enhancing political competition tend to limit the size of government, while reforms increasing political participation tend to increase the size of government. Furthermore, we find that reforms which remove literacy requirements from franchise laws are associated with governmental expansion, while changes in women's suffrage laws have no impact on the size of government. Our findings demonstrate the empirical relevance of the distinction between political competition and participation. [Copyright Elsevier B.V.]

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Major Events that Affected Families in the 20th Century -- 1. Courtship, Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and Bereavement: Family Transitions in the 20th Century -- 2. How Families Lived -- 3. Work and Family Life -- 4. Rituals: How Families Developed and Maintained Shared Meanings -- 5. Mothers and Motherhood -- 6. Men in Families -- 7. Children and Adolescents in Families -- 8. Family Abuse and Neglect: The Dark Side of Families -- 9. Alternative Family Forms -- References -- Index.

Since its inception three decades ago, the Fulbright international educational exchange program in Latin America has aided individual students & Latin American educational institutions alike. The binational Fulbright commissions that select participants have earned a reputation for autonomy & fairness & have encouraged innovative programs such as cost sharing, state-of-the-art seminars, & flexible tenure provisions for US scholars teaching in Latin America. As the US & Latin American U systems have increasingly converged, Fulbright has also helped to introduce & promote such US concepts as U-based research & decentralized higher education, as well as Latin American U commitment to social outreach. Yet some problems remain. These include competition from European & Soviet exchange programs, inadequate contact among Fulbright scholars now in the US, & failure to maintain contact with Fulbright alumni once they have returned home. Further institution building in the Latin American educational sector also deserves greater support. The existing binational commissions provide an excellent model for the cooperation needed to address these problems, & they underscore the important role that Fulbright can continue to play in Latin America. HA

I bring together two areas of scholarship – memory studies and theories of built space – in order to examine cultural responses to trauma in late 20th- and 21st- century Latin America. Each chapter charts the work of Latin American women writers of the post-trauma or post-dictatorship generation: the aftermath of dictatorships in Chile (Nona Fernández) and Argentina (Tununa Mercado), the legacies of the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico (Ana Clavel), and responses to the Shining Path in Peru (Karina Pacheco Medrano). My study is the first to bring these lesser-known women authors – joined together by their political engagement with the tension between spaces of collective and individual memory – into comparative analysis. They mark a shift in writing about trauma; each revisits unfinished histories from a perspective of temporal and/or spatial distance – through the lens of exile, of an "inheritor" of memory, or of a member of the second generation. Forming a "shadow canon," these texts articulate a gender-specific reading of trauma through the female body's interaction with the built environment. Within these fictional responses to trauma, corporeally experienced events become enmeshed in relationships to public space. Through fiction-writing – a practice central to the process of political critique in Latin America – these authors react to the deliberate altering of cityspaces by authoritarian regimes. Their literary return to potential sites of collective memory (monuments or memorials) marks absence, and seeks to reclaim what was lost in the radical transformation of the urban landscape. I focus on the way that the past is publicly encountered or mapped onto the contours of the city, as the authors place the reader in the ethical position of engaging in conversation with urban sites of memory. This literary undertaking engages the collective political unconscious, and advances social healing. My work underscores the importance of understanding the social systems and urban trajectories of societies emerging from dictatorship and colonial histories – where the bodies of ethnic minorities and women indicate a continuing pattern of oppression. Fiction allows for a fuller articulation of diverse subjects living in complex urban spaces, and examines the intellectual and social work of extending human freedom.