Distant Alliances

Introduction; I: Gender Equity in Education Policy; Public Policies on Gender and Education in Paraguay; Gender Equity in Bolivian Educational Policies; Public Policy and Adult Education for Women in Brazil; II: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Education of Adult Women; Learning for the Construction of a Feminist Agenda within Organizations in Civil Society; Other Ways to Be Teachers, Mothers, and Fathers; Educating about Gender; Leadership Training; From the Local to the Global and the Global to the Local; III: International Development Agencies and Gender Equity in Education for Women and Girls in Latin America; Global Priorities and Local Predicaments in Education; UNESCO and the Education of Girls and Women in Latin America and the Caribbean; Restructuring Bilateral Aid for the Twenty-First Century; USAID Efforts to Expand and Improve Girls’ Primary Education in Guatemala; Ambiguities in Compensatory Policies; Conclusions