Partners in Conflict - The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973

"Pathbreaking in its use of gender analysis to illuminate agrarian reform and the Allende era, including women's work, sexuality as a terrain of contest and the role of masculinity in rural social movements and politics. Tinsman opens up a new dimension."--Peter Winn, Tufts University

List of contents

Maps and Tables ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations xix

Introduction 1

1. Patron and Peon: Labor and Authority on the Great Estates 19

2. Binding Ties: Campesino Sexuality and Family Negotiations 55

3. Making Men: Labor Mobilization and Agrarian Reform 82

4. Promoting Gender Mutualism: Rural Education, Mothers’ Centers, and Family Planning 128

5. Struggling for Land: Worker Bosses and Campesina Militants 171

6. Revolutionizing Women: Popular Unity and Female Mobilization 209

7. Coming Apart: Struggle, Sex, and Social Crisis 247

Epilogue: 1973-1988 288

Notes 297

Selected Bibliography 347

Index 361

About the author

Heidi Tinsman

Summary

Analyses differences between men's and women's participation in Chile's Agrarian Reform movement, examining how conflicts over gender shape the contours of working-class struggles and national politics.

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Tinsman, Tinsman, Heidi Tinsman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2002
• EAN: 9780822329077
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2907-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Weight: 907 g
• Illustrations: 25 b&w photos, 22 tables, 2 maps, 6 figures
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Chile