Bananeras: Women Transforming The Banana Unions of Latin America

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2005 
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Transnational feminism, International labor solidarity, Anti-imperialism 
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The banana is a ubiquitous fruit, but many of us do not know how and by whose efforts it reaches our tables. From the banana plantations of Honduras we find a new struggle that places women's human rights at the center of global class politics. There, women banana workers–*mujeres bananeras*–are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing. All told, their successes broadly reimagine the possibilities of international labor solidarity. Over the past twenty years, banana women have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives. In a vibrant example of transnational feminism at work, banana women from Honduras crossed borders to ally with workers in six other banana-exporting countries, arguing all the while that empowering women at every level of their organizations makes for stronger unions and a more powerful front in the face of transnational corporations. Lively and accessible, *Bananeras* is a peoples' history of a vital movement in the worldwide struggle for human rights and global justice. 
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