TY - JOUR AU - Hanson Pastran, Sasha PY - 2017/08/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Paradoxes and Potentials for Women’s Empowerment in Latin American Agricultural Co-operatives: The Case of Honduras JF - International Journal of Cooperative Studies JA - IJCS VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.11634/216826311706800 UR - http://worldscholars.org/index.php/ijcs/article/view/800 SP - 1-15 AB - The purpose of the research is to identify innovative strategies and practices that enable women to have equal opportunity to participate actively in the life of the co-operative. The research focuses on the case of the Honduran co-operative movement and is informed by primary interviews with women from regional and international co-operative associations and agricultural development organizations in Central America. Analysis employs a gender and development (GAD) theoretical framework combined with a socialist feminist analysis to interrogate the paradoxes and potentials for the co-operative development model to empower women. Overall, the paper argues that realizing the potential for co-operatives to empower women in Latin America depends upon the cultivation of enabling ideologies and institutions that challenge <em>machista </em>cultural norms and address legal barriers and other structural obstacles to women’s full participation in co-operative development. ER -