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Tourism is often identified as a strategy to ameliorate the wellbeing of poor communities and their most vulnerable members – women and their children. Women’s ability to get involved in and benefit from tourism is, however, conditioned by traditional gender roles and consequent education handicaps. Development programs often target women to mitigate these disparities. Thispaper examines whether an intervention by the Peace Corps resulted in improved human agency and self-determination among indigenous Q’eqchi’ women in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. The paper reports the accomplishments and shortcomings of the intervention and elaborates on the practical and theoretical implications of the findings.

Petrarch’s influence in Britain, if, via traditional literary histories, we look only at great figures, is essentially fragmentary and ambiguous. If, on the other hand, we burrow, by electronic means, into the cultural hinterland of the intense contemporary discussions surrounding the Reformation, we find a Petrarch who offers protestants of varying backgrounds a series of propaganda coups not only on general moral issues, but also on the current question of married clergy. The Petrarch thus revealed is a Latin one, but not a humanist.