Sonia Alvarez

Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of

• Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics (Princeton, 1990);
• co-editor of The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy and Democracy, with Arturo Escobar (Westview, 1992);
• co-editor of Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements, with Evelina Dagnino and Arturo Escobar (Westview, 1998).

 Her writings on feminist movements and democratization have appeared in Signs, Feminist Studies, Revista Estudos Feministas, Debate Feminista, and several edited collections. Between 1993 and 1996 she coordinated the Rights and Social Justice Program for the Brazil Office of the Ford Foundation. Alvarez's current research centers on challenges to democratic theory and practice posed by the reconfiguration of Latin American social movements and national and transnational civil society. She is working on a new book, tentatively entitled, Restructuring Resistance: Civil Society, Citizenship and Cultural Politics in Post-Authoritarian Latin America.