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Bonnie S. Anderson. Joyous Greetings:
The First International Women’s Movement, 1830-1860.
NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. 288p.
Victor P. Unda
Washington State University
Anyone who wants to study or write about the first international women’s movement should read Joyous Greetings. This book serves as an important foundation and addresses the sociological constraints existing in the 1800s to explain [...]

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Lisa Baldez. Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 227p.
Victor P. Unda
Washington State University
Author Lisa Baldez devotes considerable energy to articulating three theoretical ideas — “tipping,” “timing,” and “framing” — in the book Why Women Protest. She raises numerous questions as to why women historically have protested in Chile and how [...]

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