Section 1, Movements, Corcoran-Nantes

"Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?: Women's Conscious raising in Community Based Struggles in Brazil", Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

Gender: the missing link in analyses of popular social movements:

• Explanation of women's roles in politics in Brazil have followed two camps; female participation under feminism or matrifocal analysis of women's relation to reproduction of the labor force
• within politics women's departments are formed to tackle women's issues, however this removes gender issues from mainstream politics

Political Practice--the development of political consciousness and solidarity

• In three movements around Sao Paolo, the Favela Movement to secure land titles, the Health Movement to improve medical services, and the Unemployed Movement to solve unemployment and demand benefits all had women as their primary participants