Sonia E. Alvarez is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  She is the author or co-author of four books, including Engendering Democracy in Brazil, The Making of Social Movements in Latin America, Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures, and Contentious Feminisms (forthcoming). Her writings on feminisms, social movements, and democratization have appeared in Signs, Feminist Studies, Revista Estudos Feministas, Estudios Latinoamericanos, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Debate Feminista, Meridians, Revista Mora, and several edited collections and movement publications..