Why Women Protest - Women''s Movements in Chile

Klappentext This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile. Zusammenfassung This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile: the movement against the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende and that against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. This book explains the similarities between these movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Preface; 1. Why women protest: tipping, timing, and framing; 2. Mothers of the cold war, daughters of the revolution: an historical overview of women and Chilean politics; Part I. Women against Allende: 3. The revolution hits home: women organize against Allende; 4. Catapulting men to action: the march of the empty pots; 5. 'Feminine power' and the end of the socialist revolution; Part II. Women against Pinochet: 6. Gendered networks and the rebirth of civil society; 7. Women defend life: mass protests and the women's movement; 8. Democracy in the country and in the home: women for and against democratic transition; 9. Why women protest: comparative evidence; References; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lisa Baldez, Lisa (Washington University Baldez, Baldez Lisa
• Mitarbeit: Robert H. Bates (Herausgeber), Peter Lange (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521010061
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01006-1
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Rand Studies in Policy Analysi; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Chile, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Politics & government, Politics and government, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls