Contents List of Tables vii List of Abbreviations viii Acknowledgements xii Notes on the Contributors xiii 1 The Local, the Regional and the Global: Transforming the Politics of Rights 1 Maxine Molyneux and Nikki Craske 2 Engendering the Right to Participate in Decision-making: Electoral Quotas and Women's Leadership in Latin America 32 Mala N. Htun and Mark P. Jones 3 Getting Rights for those without Representation: the Success of Conjunctural Coalition-building in Venezuela 57 Elisabeth Jay Friedman 4 Taking the Law into their Own Hands: Women, Legal Reform and Legal Literacy in Brazil 79 Fiona Macaulay 5 In Pursuit of the Right to be Free from Violence: the Women's Movement and State Accountability in Uruguay 102 Niki Johnson 6 Constructing Citizenship in the PoblacioÂnes of Santiago, Chile: the Role of Reproductive and Sexual Rights 124 Ceri Willmott 7 Indigenous Women, Rights and the Nation-State in the Andes 149 Sarah A. Radcliffe v