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CURRICULUM VITAE
Carmen Diana Deere
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies
and
Food & Resource Economics
University of Florida
ADDRESS:
Center for Latin American Studies
319 Grinter Hall
P.O. Box 115530
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
TEL: (352) 273-4731
FAX: (352) 392-7682
EMAIL: [email protected]
DATE/PLACE OF BIRTH: August 1, 1945, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
EDUCATION:
B.A.
M.A.
Ph.D.
1967
University of Colorado, Boulder
(International Affairs/Economics, with honors)
1968 The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
(Development Studies)
1978 University of California, Berkeley
(Agricultural Economics)
AWARDS
1997 Chancellor's Medal recipient for outstanding research, teaching and service, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Book and Article Awards:
2006
2003
2002
2002
2002
2001
James A. Robertson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, for “Liberalism and
Married Women’s Property Rights,” best article in HAHR in 2005
Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, for Empowering Women
Best Book Award, New England Council of Latin American Studies, for Empowering
Women
Best Book Award, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, History Division, for Empowering
Women
Best Book Award, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Social Science Division, for
Historias Agrarias
Best Book Award, University of Havana, for Historias Agrarias
1998
Joseph P. Criscenti Best Article Award, New England Council of Latin American
Studies, for “Here Come the Yankees!”
1991 Best Book Award, New England Council of Latin American Studies, for Household and
Class Relations
Fellowships:
2000
1996
1992
1984
1981-82
1975-77
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Fellow, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bacardi Family Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Faculty Research Fellow, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame
Faculty Fellow, The Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College
International Doctoral Research Fellowship for Latin America and the Caribbean,
American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council
1975
Inter-American Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (declined)
1975
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (declined, named Honorary Fellow)
1973-76 Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship for Puerto Ricans
1967
Celia M. Howard Fellow at The Fletcher School (sponsored by the Business and
Professional Women’s Federation)
Research Grants:
2013-15
2012
2010-15
2009-11
2008
2006-07
2002-03
1998
1997-01
1997
1990-96
1990
1988-89
1986
UN Women, for the Gender Asset Gap project
United Nations Foundation, for the Gender Asset Gap project
The Vanguard Foundation, for the Gender Asset Gap project
Foreign Ministry of The Netherlands, MDG3 Fund, for a comparative study of women
and asset accumulation in Ecuador, Ghana and India (Gender Asset Gap project)
The World Bank, for a study on improving data collection on gender and assets in Latin
America
The World Bank, for a study on measuring women’s assets in developing countries
The World Bank, for a study of the impact of women’s land rights in Latin America
The Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
The Ford Foundation, for a comparative study of gender and land rights in
Latin America and the dissemination of findings
Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (faculty research
grants also awarded in 1989 and 1984)
The MacArthur Foundation, Population and Environment Programs, for a collaborative
study on Agrarian Transformation in Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Hungary and the former
Soviet Union
IREX, travel grant to the Soviet Union
The MacArthur Foundation and The Ford Foundation, for a collaborative study on
Caribbean Development Alternatives
American Philosophical Society, travel and research grant
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1985
The Ford Foundation, seminar and pre-publication grant
1984-85 Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, Social Science Research Council,
seminar and pre-publication grant
1982-83 Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, Social Science Research Council and
the American Council of Learned Societies, Post-Doctoral Research Grant
1981
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Grant-in-Aid of Research
1978-80 International Labour Office, World Employment Programme
Institutional Grants:
2014-16
2012-14
2009-12
2006-10
2006-08
2006-07
2004-06
1997-04
1992-00
Latin America Agribusiness Development Corporation to support research on Cuban
Agriculture, UF Cuba Program
Center for International Tropical Agriculture to support research on gender & climate
change
The MacArthur Foundation, for the development of a Master’s in Development
Practice program in the Centers for Latin American and African Studies
Department of Education, Title VI, National Resource Center and Foreign Language
and Area Studies grants to the Florida Consortium of Latin American Studies
The Tinker Foundation, field research grant to the UF Center for Latin American
Studies
The Ford Foundation, conference and publication grant to the UF Center for Latin
American Studies
The Ford Foundation, to International Association for Feminist Economics and
Feminist Economics, for a special issue of the journal co-edited by Deere
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, to Latin American Studies Consortium of
New England
Department of Education, Title VI, National Resource Center and Foreign Language
and Area Studies grants (Undergraduate, 2 cycles, Comprehensive, 1 cycle), to the
Latin American Studies Consortium of New England
POSITIONS HELD
2015Honorary Professor Emerita, FLACSO-Ecuador
2014
Invited Professor, Department of Sociology and Gender Studies, FLACSO-Ecuador
2011-15 Distinguished Professor, University of Florida
2009-10 Visiting Scholar, Gender and Culture Program, FLACSO-Ecuador
2004-11 Professor of Food and Resource Economics and Latin American Studies, University
of Florida; affiliate appointments in the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender
Research and in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment
2004-09 Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
1986-04 Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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1992-04
2004
2003
2003
2002
2000
1997
1991-95
1991
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984-85
1983
1981-85
1981
1980
1978
1977-86
Director of Latin American Studies, and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean
and Latino Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Mission Leader to Brazil on
Land Reform and Poverty Reduction
Consultant, North South Institute and Canadian International Development Research
Centre on scoping study on land issues
Lecturer, graduate training course on Gender, Development and Democracy, Centro
de Investigación Interdisciplinaria en Ciencias y Humanidades, National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City
Lecturer, graduate training course on Gender, Development and Democracy, Centro
de Investigación Interdisciplinaria en Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM; and Masters
Program in Gender Studies, University of San Andrés, La Paz
Visiting Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro
Consultant to the Dutch Embassy and the Fundación Arias, San José, Costa Rica
Visiting Researcher, Rural Studies Team, University of Havana
Consultant, Women's Studies Program, Confederation of Central American
Universities, San José, Costa Rica
Lecturer, Center for Research for Feminine Action (CIPAF) and University of Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic
Consultant, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Special
Programming Mission to Ecuador
Lecturer, graduate training course, University of Honduras (sponsored by CIPAF and
UNDP)
Visiting Associate Professor, Development Studies Program, University of California,
Berkeley
Consultant, CIPAF, Dominican Republic (research program on rural women funded
by IDRC and SAREC)
Consultant, The Ford Foundation, New York; Academic Coordinator and Lecturer,
graduate training course on Research Methodologies for the Study of Rural
Women, University of Santo Domingo and CIPAF
Consultant, Rural Women Research Program, Center for the Study and Investigation
of the Agrarian Reform, Ministry of Agricultural Development, Managua,
Nicaragua (research program funded by The Ford Foundation)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
and Development Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley
Consultant: The Ford Foundation, New York
Consultant: The Ford Foundation, New York; The Population Council, New York;
and International Labour Office, Geneva
Instructor, Assistant, and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
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1976-78
1975-76
1975
1971-72
1969-71
1968-69
Collaborative Researcher, Colombian Rural Women Study, Colombian Association
of Population Studies, Bogotá, Colombia (research program funded by The
Ford Foundation, The Population Council, and The Rockefeller Foundation)
Visiting Researcher, Socio-Economic Research Program, Cajamarca-La Libertad
Pilot Project, Ministry of Agriculture, Cajamarca, Peru
Associate (Lecturer), College of Natural Resources, University of California,
Berkeley
Assistant Program Economist, Agency for International Development, Brazilia, Brazil
International Development Intern, Agency for International Development,
Washington, D.C. and La Paz, Bolivia
Economic Planner, International Division, First National City Bank, New York
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
2012 Feminist Economics, Special Issue on “Gender and International Migration,” guest edited
with Lourdes Beneria and Naila Kabeer, Vol. 18 (2). 321 pp.
2011 Acumulación de activos: Una apuesta por la equidad, with Jackeline Contreras (Quito:
FLACSO-Ecuador). 74 pp.
2009 The Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods,
edited with Frederick S. Royce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida). 356 pp.
2006 Feminist Economics, Special Issue on “Women and Wealth,” guest edited with Cheryl R.
Doss, Vol. 12 (1&2). 322 pp. Republished as Women and the Distribution of Wealth, edited
with Cheryl R. Doss (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). 310 pp.
2004 Land & Development in Latin America: Openings for Policy Research, with Stephen
Baranyi and Manuel Morales (Ottawa: The North-South Institute and the International
Development Research Centre). 82 pp.
Spanish translation, Tierra y desarrollo en América Latina: Perspectivas para la
investigación sobre políticas (Ottawa: The North-South Institute and the International
Development Research Centre). 97 pp.
2001 Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America, with Magdalena León
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press). 486 pp.
Spanish translation, Género, Propiedad y Empoderamiento: Tierra, Estado y Mercado en
América Latina (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo and National University of Colombia, 2000; 2cd. ed.,
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Mexico City: PUEG/UNAM and FLACSO, 2002); Portuguese translation, O Empoderamento
das Mulheres: Terra e Direitos de Propiedade na America Latina (Porto Alegre: Editora da
Universidade, UFRGS, 2002). 501 pp.
1998 Guines, Santo Domingo and Majibacoa: sobre sus historias agrarias, with Niurka Pérez,
Cary Torres, Myriam García and Ernel Gonzalez (Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales). 442
pp.
1990 Household and Class Relations: Peasants and Landlords in Northern Peru (Berkeley:
University of California Press). 368 pp.
Expanded Spanish edition, Familia y Relaciones de Clase: El campesinado y los
terratenientes en la sierra norte del Peru, 1900-1980 (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos,
1992). 414 pp.
1990 In the Shadows of the Sun: Caribbean Development Alternatives and US Policy, C.D.
Deere, coordinator, with co-authors Peggy Antrobus, Lynn Bolles, Edwin Melendez, Peter
Phillips, Marcia Rivera, and Helen Safa (Boulder: Westview Press). 246 pp.
1986 Transition and Development: Problems of Third World Socialism, edited with Richard
Fagen and José Luis Coraggio (N.Y.: Monthly Review Press). 352 pp.
Expanded Spanish collection, La Transición Dificil: El Desarollo de los Pequeños Paises
Periféricos, edited with José Luis Coraggio (Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1986); reprinted
(Managua: Editorial Vanguardia, 1987). 408 pp.
1986 La Mujer y la Política Agraria en América Latina, edited with Magdalena León (Bogotá:
Siglo XXI). 290 pp.
English version, Rural Women and State Policy: Feminist Perspectives on Agricultural
Development in Latin America, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1987). 282 pp.
1982 Women in Andean Agriculture: Peasant Production and Rural Wage Employment in
Colombia and Peru, with Magdalena León de Leal (Geneva: International Labour Office). 172
pp.
1982 Debate Sobre la Mujer en América Latina y El Caribe: Discusión acerca de la Unidad
Producción-Reproducción, Vol. I, La Realidad Colombiana; Vol. II, Las Trabajadoras del Agro;
Vol. III, Sociedad, Subordinación y Femenismo; Magdalena León, ed., and C.D. Deere and
Nohra Rey, editorial committee (Bogotá: Asociación Colombiana para el Estudio de la
Población). 794 pp.
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1980 Mujer y Capitalismo Agrario, Magdalena León de Leal, Director, and C.D. Deere,
Collaborative Researcher, Colombian Rural Women Study (Bogotá: Asociación Colombiana
para el Estudio de la Población). 295 pp.
Journal Articles:
2015. “Who Decides over the Use of Remittances? A Gendered Analysis of Ecuador.” Latin
American Research Review, with Gina Alvarado, accepted.
2015. “The Gender Asset and Wealth Gaps,” with Cheryl Doss, Abena D. Oduro and Hema
Swaminatham. Development, Vol. 57 (3-4), forthcoming.
2015. “Gendered Perceptions of Land Ownership and Agricultural Decision-making in
Ecuador,” with Jennifer Twyman and Pilar Useche. Land Economics, Vol. 91 (3): 479-500.
2015. “Women’s Wealth and Intimate Partner Violence: Insights from Ecuador and Ghana,”
with Abena D. Oduro and Zachary Catanzarite. Feminist Economics, Vol. 21 (2): 1-29.
2014. “Género, estado civil y la acumulación de activos en el Ecuador: una mirada a la
violencia patrimonial,” with Jackeline Contreras and Jennifer Twyman. Eutopía, No. 5: 93-119.
2014. “¿Quién toma las decisiones agrícolas? Mujeres propietarias en Ecuador,” with Jennifer
Twyman. Agricultura, Sociedad y Desarollo, No. 11: 425-440.
2014. “Patrimonial Violence: A Study of Women’s Property Rights in Ecuador,” with Jackeline
Contreras and Jennifer Twyman. Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 41 (1): 143-65.
2013. “Property Rights and the Gender Distribution of Wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India.”
with Abena D. Oduro, Hema Swaminathan, and Cheryl Doss. Journal of Economic Inequality,
Vol. 11 (2): 249-265.
2012. “Asset Ownership and Egalitarian Decision-making in Dual-headed Households in
Ecuador,” with Jennifer Twyman. Review of Radical Political Economy, Vol. 44 (3): 313-320.
2012. “Gender and International Migration: Globalization, Development and Governance,”
with Lourdes Beneria and Naila Kabeer. In L. Beneria, C.D. Deere and N. Kabeer (eds.), Special
Issue on Gender and International Migration. Feminist Economics, Vol. 18 (2): 1-30.
Abridged version, in Laura Oso and Natalia Ribas-Mateo (eds.), The International
Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar,
2013), 45-68.
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2012. “Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners versus
Household Heads,” with Gina Alvarado and Jennifer Twyman. Development and Change, Vol.
43 (2): 505-530.
2010. “Property Rights and Women’s Accumulation of Assets over the Life Cycle: Patrimonial
Violence in Ecuador,” with Jackeline Contreras and Jennifer Twyman. ALASRU. Nueva época.
Análisis latinoamericana del medio rural, No. 5: 135-176.
2006 “The Gender Asset Gap: What Do We Know and Why Does it Matter?” with Cheryl R.
Doss. Feminist Economics, Vol. 12 (1&2): 1-50.
Abridged version, “The Gender Asset Gap: Why Women’s Wealth Matters,” in David Smith
(ed.) The Social Issues Collection (Gender & Social Issues): A Routledge/University Readers
Custom Library for Teaching (New York & London: Routledge Custom Publishing, 2008).
2006 “La feminización de la agricultura? Asalariadas, campesinas y reestructuración
económica en la América Latina rural.” ALASRU: Análisis Latinoamericano del medio rural,
No. 4: 77-136.
Abridged English version, “The Feminization of Agriculture? Economic Restructuring in
Rural Latin America,” in Shahra Razavi (ed.), The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization:
Towards Embedded Liberalism? (London/New York: Routledge and UNRISD Research in
Gender and Development, 2008), pp. 99-127.
2005 “Liberalism and Married Women’s Property Rights in Nineteenth Century Latin America,”
with Magdalena León. Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 85 (4): 627-678.
Spanish translation, “El liberalismo y los derechos de propiedad de las mujeres casadas en el
siglo XIX en América Latina,” in Magdalena León and Eugenia Rodríguez (eds.), Ruptura de la
inequidad? Propiedad y género en la América Latina del siglo XIX (Bogota: Siglo del Hombre
Eds., 2005), pp. 29-103.
2005 “Married Women’s Property Rights as Human Rights: The Latin American Contribution.”
Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. 17 (1): 101-113.
2004 “Revertir la reforma agraria con exclusión de género: Lecciones a partir de América
Latina,” with Magdalena León. El Otro Derecho (Bogotá), Special Issue on Land, No. 31/32:
181-220.
2003 “The Gender Asset Gap: Land in Latin America,”with Magdalena León. World
Development, Vol. 31 (6): 925-947.
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Portuguese translation, “Diferenças de gênero en relação aos bens: a propiedade fundiária na
América Latina.” Sociologias (Porto Alegre, Brazil), No. 10, 2003: 100-153; Spanish
translation, “La brecha de género en la propiedad de la tierra en América Latina,” Estudios
Sociológicos (Mexico City), Vol. 22 (65), 2004: 397-439; French translation (excerpt), Cahiers
genre et développement (Geneva), No. 8, forthcoming 2012.
2003 “Women’s Land Rights and Rural Social Movements in the Brazilian Agrarian Reform.”
Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 3 (1&2): 257-288.
Portuguese translation, “Os direitos da mulher a terra e os movimentos sociais rurais na
reforma agrária Brasileira” Revista de Estudos Feministas (Florianopolis, Brazil), Vol. 23 (1),
2004: 175-204.
2002 “Diferenças regionais na reforma agrária brasileira: gênero, direitos à terra e movimentos
sociais rurais,” Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (Rio de Janeiro), No. 18: 112-146.
2001 “Derechos de propiedad, herencia de las esposas e igualdad de género: aspectos
comparativos entre Brasil y Hispanoamérica,” with Magdalena León, Revista de Estudos
Feministas, Vol. 9 (2): 433-459.
2001 “Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land Titling Programs in Latin America,” with
Magdalena León, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 1 (3), 440-467.
Spanish translation, “De quién es la tierra? Género y programas de titulación de tierras en
América Latina,” Revista Cuadernos del Cendes (Caracas), No. 48, 2001: 43-69.
2001 “Institutional Reform of Agriculture under Neoliberalism: The Impact of the Women=s
and Indigenous Movements,” with Magdalena León, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 36
(2): 31-63.
Spanish translation, “La reforma institucional de la agricultura bajo el neoliberalismo. El
impacto de los movimientos feministas e indígenas,” in Martha Patricia Castañeda Salgado, ed.,
Construyendo el presente, mirando al futuro: perspectivas feministas para un desarrollo con
democracia. (Mexico City: CEIICH-UNAM, 2003).
2000 “Derechos individuales y colectivos a la tierra: mujeres e indígenas bajo el
neoliberalismo,” with Magdalena León, Análisis Político (Bogotá), No. 39: 36-55.
1998 "Mujeres sin tierra," with Magdalena León, Tinkasos, Revista Boliviana de Ciencias
Sociales (La Paz), Vol. 1 (2): 47-66.
1998 "Gender, Land and Water: from Reform to Counter-reform in Latin America," with
Magdalena León, Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 15 (4): 375-386.
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1998 "Here Come the Yankees! The Rise and Decline of United States Colonies in Cuba, 18981930," Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 78 (4): 729-765.
Spanish translation, “Ahí vienen los yanquis. El auge y la declinación de las colonias
norteamericanas en Cuba (1898-1930)” in Rafael Hernández, ed., Mirar el Niagara: Huellas
culturales entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos (Havana: Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la
Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello, 2000), pp. 129-185.
1998 "Mujeres, derechos a la tierra y contrarreformas en América Latina," with Magdalena
León, Debate Agrario (Lima), No. 27: 129-154.
Also in Universidad Nacional, ed., Mujeres, hombres y cambio social (Bogotá: Universidad
Nacional, 1998), pp. 253-285. French translation (excerpt), Cahiers genre et développement
(Geneva), No. 8, forthcoming, 2012.
1997 "La mujer rural y la reforma agraria en Colombia," with Magdalena León, Revista
Cuadernos de Desarrollo Rural (Bogotá), Nos. 38/39: 7-23.
1997 "Reforming Cuban Agriculture," Development and Change, Vol. 28 (4): 649-669.
German translation in Lateinamerika Land und Freiheit, Analysen und Berichte, Vol. 21,
1997: 109-132.
1995 "The New Agrarian Reforms," in special issue on "Cuba: Adapting to a Post-Soviet
World," NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 29 (2): 13-17.
1995 "What Difference Does Gender Make? Rethinking Peasant Studies," Feminist Economics,
Vol. 1 (1): 53-72.
Reprinted in Lourdes Beneria, ed., Gender and Development: Theoretical, Empirical and
Practical Approaches (U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2001), pp.74-93. Spanish
translation, “Qué diferencia resulta de la perspectiva de género? Repensando los estudios
campesinos,” in UMBRALES, Revista del Postgrado en Ciencias del Desarollo (La Paz:
CIDES-UMSA), No. 11, 2002: 163-187.
1995 "Household Incomes in Cuban Agriculture: A Comparison of the State, Cooperative and
Peasant Sectors," with Ernel Gonzales, Niurka Pérez, and Gustavo Rodriguez, Development and
Change, Vol. 26 (2): 209-234.
1994 "The View from Below: Cuban Agriculture in the Special Period in Peacetime," with
Niurka Pérez and Ernel Gonzales, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 21 (2): 194-234.
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1993 "Cuba's National Food Program and its Prospects for Food Security," Journal of
Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 10 (3): 35-51.
1992 "When Export Growth Isn't Enough: U.S. Trade Policy and Caribbean Basin Economic
Recovery," with Edwin Melendez, Caribbean Affairs, Vol. 5 (1):61-70.
Reprinted in Homines: Revista de Ciencias Sociales (San Juan), Vol. 17 (1 & 2), 1994:
353-361.
1992 "Toward a Periodization of the Cuban Collectivization Process: Changing Incentives and
Peasant Response," with Mieke Meurs and Niurka Pérez, Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, Vol.
22: 115-149.
1992 "Markets, Markets Everywhere? Understanding the Cuban Anomaly," with Mieke Meurs,
World Development, Vol. 20 (6): 825-839.
1991 "Cuba's Struggle for Self-Sufficiency," Monthly Review, Vol. 43 (3): 55-73.
1985 "Rural Women and State Policy: The Latin American Agrarian Reform Experience,"
World Development, Vol. 13 ( 9): 1037-1053.
Reprinted in Lourdes Beneria, ed., Gender and Development: Theoretical, Empirical and
Practical Approaches (U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2001), pp. 477-493. Updated and
revised version, "The Latin American Agrarian Reform Experience," in Deere and León, eds.,
Rural Women and State Policy, op. cit., pp. 165-190, and Spanish translation in León and Deere,
eds., La Mujer y la Política Agraria, op. cit., pp. 187-208.
1985 "The Peasantry and the Development of Sandinista Agrarian Policy, 1979-1984," with
Peter Marchetti and Nola Reinhardt, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 20 (3): 75-109.
1983 "Cooperative Development and Women's Participation in the Nicaraguan Agrarian
Reform," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 65 (5):1043-1048.
French translation, Revue Tiers Monde, Vol. 26 (102), 1985: 403-409.
1982 "A Comparative Analysis of Agrarian Reform in El Salvador and Nicaragua," Development
and Change, Vol. 13: 1-41.
1982 "The Division of Labor by Sex in Agriculture: A Peruvian Case Study," Economic
Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 30 (4): 795-811.
Also in E. Archetti, P. Cammack and B. Roberts, eds., Sociology of "Developing Societies:"
Latin America (London: Macmillan, 1987), pp. 163-212; earlier Spanish version, “La División
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por sexo del trabajo agrícola: Un estudio de la Sierra Norte del Perú,” Estudios de Población,
Vol. II (9). 1977: 14-29.
1981 "Nicaraguan Agricultural Policy: 1979-1981," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 5
(2):195-200.
1981 "The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the First Year of the Nicaraguan Agrarian Reform," with
Peter Marchetti, Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 8 (2): 40-73.
Portuguese translation, Reforma Agrária (Brazil), Vol. 11 (3), 1981: 3-30.
1981 "Demographic and Social Differentiation among Northern Peruvian Peasants," with Alain
de Janvry, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 8 (3): 335-366.
1981 "Peasant Production, Proletarianization, and the Sexual Division of Labor in the Andes,"
with Magdalena León de Leal, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 7 (2):
338-360.
Also in Lourdes Benería, ed., Women and Development, the Sexual Division of Labor in
Rural Societies (New York: Praeger, 1982), pp. 65-94; Spanish translation, "Producción
Campesina, Proletarización, y la División Sexual del Trabajo en la Zona Andina," in M. León,
ed., Las Trabajadoras del Agro (Bogotá: ACEP, 1982), pp. 115-132.
1979 "A Conceptual Framework for the Empirical Analysis of Peasants," with Alain de Janvry,
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 61 (4): 601-611.
1979 "La Mujer Rural y el Desarollo del Capitalismo en el Agro Colombiano," with Magdalena
León de Leal, Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos (Bogotá), Vol. 2 (1): 77-107.
Condensed English version, "Rural Women and the Development of Capitalism in Colombian
Agriculture," SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 5 (1), 1979: 60-77; earlier
version (selected proceedings of First Symposium on Women in Mexico and the Caribbean) in
América Indígena (Mexico City), Vol. 38 (2), 1978: 341-382 and in Demografía y Economía
(Mexico City), Vol. 12 (1), 1978: 4-36.
1979 "Measuring Rural Women's Work and Class Position," with Magdalena León de Leal,
Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 10 (11 &12): 370-374.
Spanish translation, in Estudios de Población (Bogotá), Vol. 3 (3) 1980: 63-69.
1978 "The Differentiation of the Peasantry and Family Structure: A Study of the Northern
Peruvian Sierra," Journal of Family History, Vol. 3 (4):422-438.
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1977 "Changing Social Relations of Production and Peruvian Peasant Women's Work," Latin
American Perspectives, Vol. 4 (1 & 2): 48-69.
Also in Latin American Perspectives, ed., Women in Latin America (Riverside: LAP, 1979),
pp. 26-46; earlier version (proceedings of Fourth World Congress) in Yearbook of Rural
Sociology, Vol. 15, 1978.
1976 "Rural Women's Subsistence Production in the Capitalist Periphery," Review of Radical
Political Economy, Vol. 8 (1): 9-17.
Revised version in R. Cohen, P. Gutkind, and P. Brazier, eds., Peasants and Proletarians:
The Struggle of Third World Workers (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979), pp. 133-145;
Spanish translation, "La Mujer Rural y la Producción de Subsistencia en la Periféria Capitalista,"
in M. León, ed., Las Trabajadoras del Agro (Bogotá: ACEP, 1982), pp. 11-22.
Chapters in Books:
2015 “Measuring the Intra-Household Distribution of Wealth in Ecuador: Qualitative Insights
and Quantitative Outcomes,” with Zachary Catanzarite, in Frederick Lee and Bruce Conin, eds.,
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics (Edward Elgar),
forthcoming.
2011 “Tierra y autonomía económica de la mujer rural: avances y desafíos para la
investigación,” in Patricia Costas, coord., Tierra de mujeres. Reflexiones sobre el acceso de las
mujeres rurales a la tierra en América Latina (La Paz: Fundación Tierra and International Land
Coalition), pp. 39-69.
Reprinted in Revista Estudios de la Procuraduría Agraria (Mexico), No. 52, 2012. English
translation: “Land and Rural Women’s Economic Autonomy: Progress and Challenges for
Research,” in P. Costas, coord.., Women’s Land: Reflections on Rural Women’s Access to Land
in Latin America. (La Paz: Fundacion Tierra and International Land Coalition), 2013: 41-70,
available at http://americalatina.landcoalition.org/node/3262.
2010 “Household Wealth and Women’s Poverty: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in
Assessing Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership,” in Sylvia Chant, ed. Elgar International
Handbook on Gender and Poverty. Concepts, Research and Policy (Oxon, UK: Edward Elgar
Publishing), pp. 347-352.
2009 “Introduction: The Rise and Impact of National and Transnational Rural Social
Movements in Latin America“ with Frederick S. Royce, in Carmen Diana Deere and Frederick S.
Royce, eds., The Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Organizing for Sustainable
Livelihoods, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), pp. 1-29.
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2008 “Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries,” with Cheryl Doss, in
James B. Davies, ed., Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective (London and New York:
Routledge and UNU-WIDER), pp. 353-372.
Reprinted in Lourdes Benería, Ann Mari May and Diana Strassmann, eds., Feminist
Economics, Vol. I, Feminism, Economics and Well-being (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar,
2011), pp. 499-524.
2007 “Married Women’s Property Rights in Mexico: A Comparative Latin American
Perspective and Research Agenda,” in Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, and Ann Varley,
eds., Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico (New Jersey: Rutgers Univ.
Press), pp. 213-230.
Spanish translation, “Los derechos de propiedad de las mujeres casadas en Mexico:
Perspectiva comparada de América Latina y agenda de investigación”“ in H. Baitenmann, V.
Chenaut and A. Varley, eds., Los códigos del género. Prácticas del derecho en el México
contemporaneo. Mexico City: Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género, 2010, pp. 347370.
2007 “Agrarian Reform and Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Brazil,” with Leonilde Medeiros,
in Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Jun Borras and Cristóbal Kay, eds., Land, Poverty, and Livelihoods in
an Era of Globalization: Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries (London:
Routledge), pp. 80-118 .
2007 “Empowering Women: Towards an Intellectual History of a Book Project,” in Angela
Carreño, ed., Women in Latin American Studies: Reshaping the Boundaries. Papers of the 49th
Annual Meeting of SALALM, June 5-8, 2004, Keynote Address (New Orleans: SALALM
Secretariat, Tulane University), pp. 3-12.
2005 “Matrimonio y divorcio civil en América Latina durante el siglo XIX,” with Magdalena
León, in Mujer, nación, identidad y ciudadanía: siglo XIX y XX. IX Cátedra Anual de Historia
Ernesto Restrepo Tirado, 28 al 30 de octubre de 2004 (Bogotá: MinCultura Memorias), pp. 78101.
2003 “El modelo neoliberal en la agricultura y la propiedad de la tierra de las mujeres rurales en
América Latina,” with Magdalena León, in Darío I. Restrepo, ed., La falacia neoliberal: crítica
y alternativas. (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional), pp. 391-412.
2002 “Individual versus Collective Land Rights: Tensions between Women’s and Indigenous
Rights under Neoliberalism,” with Magdalena León, in Jacquelyn Chase, ed., The Spaces of
Neoliberalism: Land, Place and Family in Latin America (Bloomfield, CN: Kumarian Press),
pp. 53-86.
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2001 “Disjuncture in Law and Practice: Women’s Inheritance of Land in Latin America,” with
Magdalena León, in Royal Tropical Institute, ed., Gender, Society and Development:
Institutionalizing Gender Equality (Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute), pp. 19-32.
2000 “Neo-liberal agrarian legislation, gender equality, and indigenous rights: the impact of new
social movements,” with Magdalena León, in Annelies Zoomers and Gemma van der Haar
(eds.), Current Land Policy in Latin America: Regulating Land Tenure under Neo-Liberalism
(Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute and KIT Publishers), pp. 75-92.
2000 “Gênero, reforma agrária e contra-reforma na America Latina,” in Nalu Faria, Maria Lucia
Silveira, and Miriam Nobre, eds., Gênero nas Politicas Publicas (São Paulo: Cadernos
Sempreviva, SOF), pp. 87-102.
2000 “Propiedad e igualdad de género. Sesgos en la herencia para hijas, esposas y viudad” with
M. León, in Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, ed., Etica Masculinades y Feminidades (Bogotá:
National University and CES), pp. 217-259.
2000 "Towards a Reconstruction of Cuba's Agrarian Transformation: Peasantization, Depeasantization and Re-peasantization," in Deborah Bryceson, Cristobal Kay, and J. Mooij, eds.,
Disappearing Peasantris? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America (London:
Intermediate Technology Publications), pp. 139-158.
1999 "Cuba: Successful Voluntary Collectivization," with Niurka Pérez, in Mieke Meurs, ed.,
Many Shades of Red: State Policy and Collective Agriculture (N.Y.: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers), pp. 185-236.
1999, "Agriculture (Third World)," in Meg Lewis and Janice Peterson, eds., The Elgar
Companion to Feminist Economics (U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., ), pp. 9-18.
1998 "Cuba: the Reluctant Reformer," with the Rural Studies Team of the University of Havana,
in Ivan Szelenyi, ed., Privatizing the Land: Rural Political Economy in Post-Communist
Societies (London: Routledge), pp. 62-91.
1993 "Third World Socialism and the Demise of COMECON," with Stan Malinowitz, in G.
Epstein, J. Graham, and J. Nembhard, eds., Creating a New World Economy: Forces of Change
and Plans for Action, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), pp. 405-420.
1987 "La mujer rural y la crisis económica latinoaméricana: su situación y políticas estatales,"
with Magdalena León, in Política Laboral y Empleo (Bogotá: Fundación Friedrich NaumanProdemocracia), pp. 93-114.
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1986 "Agrarian Reform, Peasant Participation, and the Organization of Production in the
Transition to Socialism," in Fagen, Deere, and Coraggio, eds., Transition and Development:
Problems of Third World Socialism, op. cit., pp.97-142.
Spanish translation in Coraggio and Deere, eds., La Transición Dificil, op. cit., pp. 215-254.
1986 “Introduction” with Richard Fagen and José Luis Coraggio, in Fagen, Deere, and Coraggio,
eds., Transition and Development: Problems of Third World Socialism, op. cit., pp. 9-27.
1986 “Introducción: Las Condiciones de la Transición en los Pequeños Países Periféricos” with
José Luis Coraggio, in Coraggio and Deere, eds., La Transición Dificil, op. cit., pp. 15-49.
1984 "Agrarian Reform as Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Nicaragua and El Salvador," in
R. Burbach and P. Flynn, eds., The Politics of Intervention: the United States in Central
America (New York: Monthly Review Press), pp. 163-188.
Spanish translation, “La reforma agraria como revolución y contra-revolución” in Polémica
(San José), No. 17/18, 1985: 61-76.
1984 "Rural Women and Agrarian Reform in Peru, Chile and Cuba," in UNESCO, ed., Women
on the Move: Contemporary Changes in Family and Society (Paris: UNESCO), pp. 57-76.
Reprinted in J. Nash and H. Safa, eds., Women and Change in Latin America (Hadley, MA:
Bergin, 1986), pp. 189-207; earlier Spanish version in Revista de Ciencias Sociales (San José),
No. 25, 1983: 49-74.
1983 "The Allocation of Familial Labor and the Formation of Peasant Household Income in the
Peruvian Sierra," in M. Buvinic, M. Lycette, and W.P. McGreevy, eds., Women and Poverty in
the Third World (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press), pp. 104-129.
1982 "Class and Historical Analysis for the Study of Women and Economic Change," with Jane
Humphries and Magdalena León de Leal, in R. Anker, M. Buvinic, and N. Youssef, eds.,
Women's Roles and Population Trends in the Third World (London: Croom Helm), pp. 87-114.
1981 "Ingreso Familiar y Trabajo No Agrícola entre los Pequeños Productores de América
Latina y El Caribe," with Robert Wasserstrom, in A. Novoa and J. Posner, eds., Seminario
Internacional sobre Producción Agropecuaria y Forestal en Zonas de Ladera de America
Tropical, (Turrialba, Costa Rica: Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza,
Informe Técnico No. 11), pp. 151-167.
1980 "Planteamientos Teóricos y Metodológicos para el Estudio de la Mujer Rural y el Proceso
de Desarrollo del Capitalismo," with Magdalena León de Leal, in Mujer y Capitalismo Agrario,
op. cit., pp. 1-28.
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1980 "La Proletarización y el Trabajo Agrícola en la Economía Parcelaria: Estudio de la
División del Trabajo por Sexo," with Magdalena León de Leal, in Mujer y Capitalismo Agrario,
op. cit., 262-289.
Also in La Realidad Colombiana, op.cit., 1-27; Portuguese translation in N. Aguiar, ed.,
Mulheres na Força de Trabalho na America Latina (Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Vozes, 1985), 123-161.
Other Monographs, Working Papers and Reports:
2015 Who Borrows? An Analysis of Gender, Debt, and Assets in Ecuador, Ghana, and
Karnataka, India, with Caren Grown, Z. Catanzarite, A. D. Oduro, S. JY, H. Swaminathan, and
L. Boakye-Yiadom. Discussion Paper. New York: UN Women.
2015 Shocks, Assets and Social Protection: A Gendered Analysis of Ecuador, Ghana and
Karnataka, India, with Cheryl Doss, A. D. Oduro, H. Swaminathan, W. Baah-Boateng, and S.
JY. Discussion Paper. New York: UN Women.
2015 Gender, Remittances and Asset Accumulation in Ecuador and Ghana, with Gina Alvarado,
Abena D. Oduro and Louis Boakye-Yiadom. Discussion Paper. New York: UN Women.
2015 The ‘Special Relationship’ and the Challenge of Diversifying a Sugar Economy: Cuban
Exports of Fruits and Vegetables to the United States, 1902 to 1962. Working Paper #1, Project
Working Paper Series, The Agricultural Sector and the International Economy. Challenges and
Opportunities for Cuba and the United States. Gainesville: UF Center for Latin American
Studies and IFAS.
2013 Measuring Personal Wealth in Developing Countries: Interviewing Men and Women
about Asset Values, with C. Doss, W. Baah-Boatang, L. Boakye-Yiadom, Z. Catanzarite, R.
Lahoti, H. Swaminathan, and Suchitra J.Y.. Gender Asset Gap Project Working Paper #15,
November. www.genderassetgap.org
2013 Women’s Land Ownership and Participation in Agricultural Decision-Making: Evidence
from Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India, with Louis Boakye-Yiadom, Cheryl Doss, Abena
D. Oduro, Hema Swaminathan, Jennifer Twyman, and Suchitra Y. The Gender Asset Gap
Project Research Brief Series No. 2. Bangalore: IIMB. September, www.genderassetgap.org
2012 “Women Who Save: A Comparative Analysis of Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India,”
with Cheryl Doss, A. Oduro & H. Swaminathan. Report prepared for the United Nations
Foundation. November.
2012 The Rural Gender Asset and Gender Wealth Gaps, with Cheryl Doss, Abena D. Oduro and
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Suchitra J. Y. Bangalore: IIMB.
2012 Lessons from the Field: Implementing Individual Asset Surveys in Ecuador, Ghana, India
and Uganda,” with C. Doss, Suchitra Y.A., A. Oduro, and M. Hillesband. The Gender Asset
Gap Project. (Bangalore: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore).
2011 The Gender Asset and Gender Wealth Gaps: Evidence from Ecuador, Ghana and
Karnataka, India, with C. Doss, A. Oduro, H. Swaminathan et al. (Bangalore: Indian Institute
of Management Bangalore).
Spanish translation, “Las brechas de género en los activos y en la riqueza: evidencia de
Ecuador, Ghana y Karnataka, India.” In A. Butto, I. Dantas, and K. Hora (cords.), As Mulheres
nas estatísticas agropecuárias: Experiencias em países do Sul. Brasilia: Ministério do
Desenvolvimento Agrario, 2012, pp. 14-39.
2010 Poverty, Headship and Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America, with Gina
E. Alvarado and Jennifer Twyman, Working Paper #296, Gender, Development and
Globalization Program, Michigan State University, March. 31 pp.
2008 Gender and Asset Ownership: A Guide to Collecting Individual-Level Data, with Cheryl
R. Doss and Caren Grown, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. WPS4704
(Washington, D.C.: The World Bank), August, http://econ.worldbank.org/docsearch. 78 pp.
2006 Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries, with Cheryl Doss, UNUWIDER Research Paper No. 2006/115 (Helsinki: United Nations University-World Institute for
Development Economics Research), November. 25 pp.
2005 Women’s Land Rights and Rural Household Incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru, with
Rosaluz Durán, Merrilee Mardon, Tom Masterson and Maria Correia, Agriculture and Rural
Development Internal Report (Washington, DC: The World Bank), December. 32 pp.
2005 The Feminization of Agriculture? Economic Restructuring in Rural Latin America. United
Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Occasional Paper #1 (Geneva:
UNRISD). 66 pp.
1999 Mujer y Tierra en Guatemala, with Magdalena León (Guatemala: AVANCSO). 55 pp.
1999 Género y Derechos de las Mujeres a la Tierra en Chile, with Magdalena León (Santiago:
CEDEM). 99 pp.
1999 Género y Derechos de las Mujeres a la Tierra en Ecuador, with Magdalena León,
Elizabeth García and Julio Cesar Trujillo (Quito: CONAMU and UNICEF). 98 pp.
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1999 "Towards a Gendered Analysis of the Brazilian Agrarian Reform," with Magdalena León,
Occasional Paper #16, Latin American Studies Consortium of New England (Storrs: University
of Connecticut). 54 pp.
1998 "Derechos de propiedad y acceso de la mujer a la tierra en El Salvador," with Magdalena
León, Boletín PRISMA #32 (El Salvador). 15 pp.
1998 "Reforma agraria y contrarreforma en el Perú: hacia un análisis de género," with
Magdalena León, Serie de Estudios Mujer Rural y Desarrollo, Ediciones flora tristan (Lima). 48
pp.
1997 "Women and Land Rights in the Latin American, Neo-Liberal Counter-reforms," with
Magdalena León, Women in International Development Working Paper #264, Michigan State
University. 81 pp.
1996 "The Evolution of Cuba's Agricultural Sector: Debates, Controversies and Research
Issues," International Agricultural Trade and Development Center, International Working Paper
Series #IW96-3, University of Florida. 29 pp.
1996 "An Annotated Bibliography on Post-1959 Cuban Agriculture," with José Alvarez, Karen
Graubart and William A. Messina, Jr., International Agricultural Trade and Development Center,
International Working Paper Series #IW96-4, University of Florida. 23 pp.
1994 "U.S.-Cuba Trade in the Process of Normalization of Relations and Cuban Economic
Recovery," Background Paper prepared for the Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C., October.
1993 "Household Incomes in Cuban Agriculture: A Comparison of the State, Cooperative, and
Peasant Sectors," with Ernel Gonzales, Niurka Pérez and Gustavo Rodriguez, Institute of Social
Studies Working Paper Series No.143 (The Hague). 41 pp.
1992 "Socialism on One Island? Cuba's National Food Program and its Prospects for Food
Security," Institute of Social Studies Working Paper Series No. 123 (The Hague). 57 pp.
1987 "Report of the Special Programming Mission to Ecuador," with Alain de Janvry (PI), et. al.,
International Fund for Agricultural Development (Rome). 160 pp.
1987 "The Peasantry in Political Economy: Trends of the 1980s," Occasional Papers Series No.
19, Program in Latin American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 76 pp.
1984 "Rural Poverty in El Salvador: Dimensions, Trends,and Causes," with Martin Diskin,
World Employment Programme Research Working Paper #64, International Labour Office. 51
pp. (refereed)
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1984 "Agrarian Reform and the Peasantry in the Transition to Socialism in the Third World,"
Kellogg Institute Working Paper #31, University of Notre Dame. 83 pp.
1984 La Mujer en las Cooperativas Agropecuarias en Nicaragua, CIERA Rural Women's
Research Team and C.D. Deere, Collaborative Researcher (Managua: Centro de Investigación y
Estudio de la Reforma Agraria). 167 pp.
Abridged English translation, Tough Row to Hoe: Women in the Nicaraguan Agricultural
Cooperatives, with new Introduction by C.D. Deere (S.F.: Institute for Food and Development
Policy, 1986). 51 pp.
Book Reviews:
2015 Rebel Lands of Cuba: The Campesino Struggle of Oriente and Escambray, 1930-1974, by
Joanna Swanger, in Hispanic American Historical Review, forthcoming.
2010 Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy, edited by Caroline Moser and Anis A. Dani, in
Feminist Economics, Vol. 16 (2): 151-153.
2009 Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique, by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., in Journal of Agrarian
Change, Vol. 9 (13): 437-439.
2004 Latin American Peasants, edited by Tom Brass, in Development and Change, Vol. 35 (1):
217-219.
2003 Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, by Deborah
Barndt, in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 32 (5): 585.
2002 La última reforma agraria del siglo: La agricultura cubana entre el cambio y el
estancamiento, edited by Hans-Jurgen Burchardt, in Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, Vol. 33:
225-227.
1997 A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, by Bina Agarwal, in
Feminist Economics, Vol. 3 (1): 188-192.
1996 The Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Women and Industrialization in the Caribbean, by
Helen I. Safa; in Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, Vol. 26: 283-285.
1996 Peasant and Nation: the Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru, by Florencia E. Mallon,
in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 25 (1): 60-62.
1995 Are Economic Reforms Propelling Cuba to the Market?, by Carmelo Mesa-Lago; in
Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 37 (3): 97-99.
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1995 Hungry Dreams: The Failure of Food Policy in Revolutionary Nicaragua, by Brizio N.
Biondi-Morra; in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 33 (2): 881-882.
1995 "Documenting Latino Social Struggles," review of The Hispanic Struggle for Social Justice
by James D. Cockcroft, and Latinas: Hispanic Women in the United States by Hedda Garza; in
Latino Review of Books, in Vol. 1 (2): 8-9.
1994 Adjusting to Reality: Beyond "State versus Market" in Economic Development, by Robert
Klitgaard; in Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 18: 88-89.
1988 Development Economics on Trial: the Anthropological Case for a Prosecution, by Polly
Hill, in American Ethnologist, Vol. 15 (4): 816-817.
1988 The Peasant Betrayed: Agriculture and Land Reform in the Third World, by John P.
Powelson and Richard Stock; in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 26 (December): 47-49.
1987 Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class and the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy, by
Forrest Colburn, American Political Science Review, Vol. 81 (3): 1025-1027.
1987 Communism and Development, by Robert Bideleux, with Carollee Benglelsdorf, in
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 26 (1): 181-184.
1986 Economía de la comunidad campesina: aproximación regional, by Efraín Gonzales de
Olarte, in Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 66 (2): 441-442.
1985 Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru, by Adolfo Figueroa, in
Agricultural History, Vol. 59 (4): 631-633.
Other Publications:
2012 “The FAO Gender Equality Policy and Land: The Challenge of Gender Disaggregated
Data.” Opinion Column for the FAO Regional Office for Latin America, July.
www.rlc.fao.org/en/press/columns/gender-disaggregated-data.
2010 “Foreword.” Forests for People. Community Rights and Forest Tenure Reform, edited by
Anne M. Larson, Deborah Barry, Ganga Ram Dahal and Carol J. Pierce Colfer. London &
Washington, D.C.: Earthscan, pp. ix-x.
2010 “Mujer, tierra y empoderamiento en America Latina. Propiedad de activos y poder de
negociación de las mujeres.” Bolivia Post-Constituyente. Tierra, territorio y autonomías
indígenas. Memoria del Seminario Internacional, 26-28 Octubre 2009. La Paz: International
Land Coalition and Fundacion Tierra, pp. 41-44.
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2009 “Assets, Gender and Entrepreneurship in Nicaragua” with Gina Alvarado. Background
paper prepared for the Latin American and Caribbean Poverty and Gender Unit, The World
Bank, Washington, D.C. 36 pp.
2006 “Reflections: Carmen Diana Deere.” Interview by Wicky Meynen. Development and
Change, Vol. 37 (6): 1355-1364.
2006 “Foreword.” Promised Land. Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform, edited by P. Rosset,
R. Patel, and M. Courville. Oakland, CA: Food First Books, pp. ix-xi.
2002 “Gender, Land Rights and the State in Latin America: The Inclusion of Women,” with
Magdalena León, Hungry for What in Right (the magazine of FIAN).
2000 “Mechanisms of Inclusion: Recent Advances in Women’s Land Rights in Latin America,”
with Magdalena León, in Andina van Isschot, coordinator, Securing Women’s Rights to Land,
Property, and Housing, Country Strategies (Quebec: International Centre for Human Rights and
Democratic Development), p. 14-17. Also on various web cites in English, Spanish and
Portuguese.
1997. “Juan Valdés Paz”. Interview, with Carollee Bengelsdorf. Special Issue on Voices of the
Left. NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 31 (1): 26-28.
1996. “Foreword.” Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork, edited by Diane L. Wolf. (Boulder:
Westview Press), pp. vii-viii.
1994 “U.S.-Cuba Trade in the Process of Normalization of Relations and Cuban Economic
Recovery.” Background Paper prepared for the Atlantic Council. Washington, D.C. October. 20
pp.
1994 Congressional Testimony, Hearing on "Agricultural Implications of Renewed Trade with
Cuba," Subcommittee on Foreign Agriculture and Hunger, Committee on Agriculture, U.S.
House of Representatives, May 19, 1994 in Congressional Record, Serial No. 103-69, pp. 8-11.
Spanish translation, “Implicaciones agrícolas del comercio cubano.” Economía Cubana.
Boletín Informativo (Havana), No. 18, 1994: 3-14.
1991 "Silver Linings: Ecological Issues in the Forefront," Cuba Update, Vol. XII (4): 26-27.
1990 "A CBI Report Card," Hemisphere: a Magazine of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs,
Vol. 3 (1): 29-31.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
President, 1992-94; Past President, 1994-95
Vice-President, 1991-92; Treasurer, 1983-86
Executive Council, 1991-95 and 1983-86
Development Committee, 1994-99; Chair, 1994-95; Co-Chair 1997-98
Search Committee for Executive Director, 2002-03
Finance Committee, 2003Chair of Nominating Committee, 2006-07
New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
President, 1991-92; Vice-President, 1990-91
Executive Board, 1988-92; Chair, 1988 Prize Committee
Best Book Award Committee, 2001
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)
Executive Board, 1994-97; Chair of Nominations Committee, 1997
Society for Economic Anthropology
Executive Board, 1988-92
International Association for Feminist Economics
Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Revista EUTOPIA (Ecuador), 2014Feminist Economics, 1994-2000; Associate Editor, 2001Historia Agraria (Spain), 2002Journal of Agrarian Change (UK), 2000Estudos Feministas (Brazil), 2000Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico), 1994Estudios Sociológicos (Mexico), 1994World Development, 1990-2013
Rethinking Marxism, Board of Advisors, 1989Latin American Perspectives, Participating Editor, 1979Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, 1994-99
Journal of Peasant Studies, 1993-1999
NACLA Report on the Americas, 1993-1999
Women and International Development Annual, 1989-1994
Comparative Economic Studies, 1988-92
Latin American Research Review, 1986-92
Development and Change (The Netherlands), 1985-94
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1985-89
Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos (Colombia), Adjunct Coordinator for U.S., 1984-90
Feminist Studies, Board of Consultants, 1979-85
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Bernstein and Byres Best Article Prize Committee, Journal of Agrarian Change, 2009
Advisory Board, BASIS/AMA CRSP Awards, US Agency for International Development and
University of Wisconsin, 2007-09
Advisory Committee (Scholar member), Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
(LARRP), Center for Research Libraries, 2005-07
Co-chair, Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Advisory Board, Department of Education
TICFIA project, Florida International University and University of Florida, 2005-07
Selection Panel, Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program for Minorities, National
Research Council, 2003 and 2005
Selection Panel, Peace and World Security Program, The John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur
Foundation, 1997
Associate Editor, Latin American Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995-98
Selection Panel for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, Council for International
Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Faculty Awards, 1995-98; Chair, 1996-98
Cultural Preservation Delegation to Tibet, National Committee for U.S.-China Relations,
November 1995
External Reviewer, Latin American Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley, February
1994
External Reviewer, Agricultural and Rural Development Program, Institute for Social Studies,
The Hague, August 1994
Advisory Council, Women's Studies Program, Princeton University, 1988-1996
Regional Research Advisory Committee, Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas
y Sociales (CRIES), 1992-94
Board of Advisors, Hemisphere Initiatives, 1989-92
Co-chairperson, 1984-89; Executive Board, 1982-89; Policy Alternatives for Central America
and the Caribbean (PACCA)
Board of Advisors, Center for the Study of the Americas, 1981-90
Advisory Fellow, U.S.-El Salvador Research and Information Center, 1981-89
Advisory Committee, Central America Resource Center, 1985-89
International Projects Committee (Project Analyst for Latin America), OXFAM-America,
1982-84
Board of Advisors, International Center for Research on Women, 1978-1982
RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (last 5 years, selected)
“Gendered Paths to Asset Accumulation? The Role of Savings and Credit.” Paper presented to
the International Association of Feminist Economics Conference, Berlin, July, 2015.
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“Who Borrows to Accumulate Assets? Class and Gender in Ecuador’s Credit Market.” Paper
presented to the Latin American Studies International Congress, San Juan, May, 2015; and to the
III Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO-Quito, August, 2015.
“Gender, Asset Accumulation and Wealth in Ecuador: Implications for Women’s Bargaining
Power.” Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, March 3, 2015.
“Mitos sobre la mujer en la agricultura: por qué se necesita mejorar las estadísticas sobre la
propiedad de la tierra y quien toma las decisiones agrícolas.” 15th International Meeting on
Gender Statistics, INEGI/CEPAL/UNWomen, Aguascalientes, November 5-7, 2014.
“Quién toma las decisiones agrícolas? Mujeres propietarias en Ecuador.” Keynote Address, XX
Aniversario (1994-2014) del Area de Género: Mujer Rural, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus
Montecillo, Mexico, October 15, 2014.
“Género, Acumulación de Activos y el Empoderamiento de Las Mujeres,” public lecture series
(5), co-sponsored by FLACSO-Ecuador, UN Women-Andean Region, and the Comisión de
Transición hacia la Igualdad de Género. FLACSO-Ecuador, April-May, 2014.
“Género y la acumulación de activos en el Ecuador: Relación con el poder de negociación de la
mujer,” Keynote panel, 12th UN Conference on Women in Latin American and the Caribbean,
ECLAC, Santo Domingo, October 14-18, 2013.
“Who is the farm manager? Women’s land ownership and decision-making in Ecuador, Ghana
and India“, Invited panelist, Third Summit on Women, National Science Foundation,
Washington, DC, November 15, 2013.
“Estadísticas agropecuarias para la igualdad de género.” Keynote presentation, FAO-MDA
Workshop on Improving Agricultural Statistics for Gender Equality, as part of REAF conference,
Reuniao Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar no Mercosul, Caixas do Sul, RGS, Brazil,
November 12, 2012.
“Women Who Save: A Comparative Analysis of Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India.” UN
Foundation and ExxonMobil Foundation Workshop on Women’s Economic Empowerment,
Greentree, NY, October 12, 2012.
“Apuntes Metodológicos: Las encuestas sobre la propiedad de activos.” 13th International
Conference on Gender Statistics, INEGI/UN Women/CEPAL, Aguascalientes, Mexico, October
8-10, 2012.
“Property Rights and the Gender Distribution of Wealth: Evidence from Ecuador, Ghana and
India.” Keynote, International Banquet, American Agricultural Economics Association
meetings, Seattle, August 13, 2012.
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“Gender and International Migration: Globalization, Development and Governance.” Paper
presented at the panel celebrating the Special Issue of Feminist Economics on Gender and
International Migration, IAFFE Annual Conference, Barcelona, June 27-29, 2012.
“The Gender Asset Gap Project: Implications for Data Collection”. World Bank Workshop on
Gender and Assets, June 4, 2012.
“Land Ownership and Farm Management in Ecuador: Egalitarian Family Farming Systems and
Gendered Constraints.” Paper presented to the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and
Poverty, Washington, D.C., April 23-26, 2012. Also presented to the 2012 International Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 24-26; revised version presented
at the IAFFE Annual Conference, Barcelona, June 27-29, 2012.
“Gender, Asset Ownership and Wealth in Ecuador.” Invited Lecture, Mellon Mentoring
Initiative, Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, April 27, 2012.
“Asset Ownership and Egalitarian Decision-making in Dual-headed Households in Ecuador.”
Paper presented at the ASSA annual meetings, URPE/IAFFE session, Chicago, January 2012;
also to the SECOLAS Annual Meeting and 61st Annual Conference of the UF Center for Latin
American Studies, March 29-31, 2012 and to the Development Economics Seminar, Department
of Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC-Davis, May 29, 2012.
“Property Rights, Asset Accumulation and Patrimonial Violence in Ecuador.” 2011 Robert G.
Mead, Jr. Endowed Lecture, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut,
Storrs, November, 2011; also Invited Lecture delivered at the Seventh Walker Symposium,
Engendering Latin@ America, Colby College, Main, October 2011.
“Derechos de Propiedad y Acumulación de Activos. Violencia Patrimonial en Ecuador.”
Keynote Address, LASA Ecuador Section Conference, Quito, June 1, 2011.
“La propiedad de activos y la desigualdad de género en América Latina.” Presentation to the 11th
Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, UN Economic
Commission on Latin America, Brazilia, July 2010; also to a seminar hosted by the Ministry of
Agricultural Development, Brazilia, July 2010. Also presented as the Keynote to the VIII
Congress of the Latin American Rural Sociology Association, Porto de Galinhas, PB, Brazil,
November 2010.
“Jefa de hogar o propietaria? Integrando género en los Censos Nacionales.” Paper presented at
the seminar, Presentación del Censo de Población y Vivienda 2010, INEC y FLACSO-Ecuador,
Quito, November 6-7, 2009.
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“La propiedad de activos por género en América Latina” Paper presented at the international
seminar, Bolivia post-Constituyente: Tierra, territorio y autonomía indígena, Fundación Tierra,
La Paz, October 26-28, 2009; and at the seminar, Globalización y Pequeña Agricultura Familiar,
ESPOL, Guayaquil, December 9-10, 2009.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University of Florida:
Coordinator, UF Cuba Program, 2010-13; Steering Committee, 2010-15.
Coordinator, UF Working Group on Gender & Climate Change, 2012-15.
Steering Committee, Masters in Sustainable Development Program, 2010-13; MDP
Curriculum Committee, 2010-15
Advisory Committee, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, CLAS, 2006-2009
Steering Committee, Law and Policy in the Americas Program, Levin College of Law, 2005Search Committee for Food and Resource Economics Department/IFAS and Center for Latin
American Studies joint position, 2005-06
Search Committee for IFAS Director of International Programs, 2005
Campus Interview Committee, Fulbright Fellowships, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012
Planning Committee, Legal Policy Issues in the Americas Conference, Levin College of Law,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Provost’s Review Committee for Dean of the UF International Center, 2004-05
Advisory Board, Center for International Business Education and Research, Warrington College
of Business, 2004-2009
Affiliate Faculty, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
University of Massachusetts:
Five College Latin American Studies Council, 1992-2004
Chair of Steering Committee for the Self-Study, 2001-02; lead author for DOE, Title VI
National Resource Center in Latin American Studies (Undergraduate) proposal, 2002
University Latin American Studies Program Executive Committee, 1977-2004; Director, 19922004
University Search Committee for Provost, 2003-04
University Women's Studies Program Advisory Council, 1996-97
University Advisory Council, Institute for the Humanities, 1992-95
University Council on Overseas Programs, 1992-95
Chancellor's Award Committee, 1983-84 and 1998
Provost's Evaluation Committee for Deans, 1987-88
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Strategic Planning Committee, 1995
Dean's Executive Council, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1989-90; 1997-99;
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2003-05
Chairperson of Department Executive and Personnel Committees, fall 1991; chair of Personnel
Committee, 1992-93
Department Merit Committee, chair, 1998-99; member, 2001-02
Department Executive Committee, 1987-1989; 1991-93
Department Placement Officer, 1990
Acting Chairperson, Economics Department, 1987-88
Department Hiring Committee, multiple years
COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate:
Gender in Latin American Development
Foundations of Economics for Sustainable Development
Issues and Perspectives in Latin American Studies
Economic Development of Latin America
Economic Development Theory
Economic Development Policy
Political Economy of Women in Development
Seminar on Central American Development Problems
Seminar on Problems of Third World Socialism
Seminar on Cuba's 20th Century Agrarian History
Economic History and Development Workshop
Doctoral Dissertation Workshop in Economics
Empoderamiento Económico de las Mujeres
Desarrollo Económico en los Países Andinos
Undergraduate:
Economic Development
Economic Development of Latin America
Gender Issues in Latin American Economic Development
Agriculture in Economic Development
Introduction to Latin American and Latino Economic Issues
Integration of the Americas: Labor, Capital and Commodity Flows
Economics of the Peasantry
Political Economy of Women in Development
Socialist Economies in the Third World
The Central American Crisis
The Latin American Economic Crisis
Global Environmental Problems
Seminar on Central America and U.S. Foreign Policy
Seminar on Issues in Development Studies
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Latin American Studies Senior Seminar
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Introductory Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
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