The possibilities for and constraints on agency: Situating women's public and hidden voices in Greater Buenos Aires

TABBUSH, CONSTANZA

Journal of International Development

JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD

Año: 2009 vol. 21 p. 868 - 882

0954-1748

ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2013: 40/55 (Planning & Development). Indexada en por los servicios de: CABI, Thomson Reuters (Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index), EconLit (AEA), ProQuest (IBSS, PAIS, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts), EBSCO Publishing, International Development Abstracts (Elsevier), RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts (T&F) 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.