The politics of motherhood : maternity and women's rights in twentieth-century Chile / Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney.

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Mooney, Jadwiga E. Pieper [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Pitt Latin American seriesPublisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780822973614
0822973618

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of motherhood : maternity and women's rights in twentieth-century Chile.DDC classification:

305.420983 22

LOC classification:

HQ1547 .M67 2009eb

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MI 85920

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Contents:

Public health, managed motherhood, and patriarchy in a modernizing nation -- Local agency, changed global paradigms, and the burden of motherhood -- Planning motherhood under Christian democracy -- Gendered citizenship rights on the peaceful road to socialism -- From mothers' rights to women's rights in a nation under siege -- International encounters and women's empowerment under dictatorship and redemocratization.

Summary: With the 2006 election of Michelle Bachelet as the first female president and women claiming fifty percent of her cabinet seats, the political influence of Chilean women has taken a major step forward. Despite a seemingly liberal political climate, Chile has a murky history on women's rights, and progress has been slow, tenuous, and in many cases, non-existent. Chronicling an era of unprecedented modernization and political transformation, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her st.

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With the 2006 election of Michelle Bachelet as the first female president and women claiming fifty percent of her cabinet seats, the political influence of Chilean women has taken a major step forward. Despite a seemingly liberal political climate, Chile has a murky history on women's rights, and progress has been slow, tenuous, and in many cases, non-existent. Chronicling an era of unprecedented modernization and political transformation, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her st.

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