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The possibilities for and constraints on agency: Situating women's public and ‘hidden’ voices in Greater Buenos Aires
Author(s) -
Tabbush Constanza
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1624
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , public sphere , state (computer science) , action (physics) , neighbourhood (mathematics) , vulnerability (computing) , civil society , political science , sociology , narrative , collective action , social vulnerability , public administration , gender studies , economic growth , social science , politics , social psychology , law , economics , psychology , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , physics , mathematics , computer security , algorithm , quantum mechanics , psychological resilience , computer science
This paper focuses on women's possibilities for agency in an excluded neighbourhood of the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this urban location, while women's social and economic insecurity become part of public concerns and civil society demands for state action, other forms of women's physical vulnerability are sidelined from state institutions and cannot be voiced as social concerns. This paper tackles this paradox and analyses women's public and hidden narratives of participation, and identifies the social processes and institutional mechanisms by which certain needs of women are sidelined from the public sphere. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.