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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780291303321

Autore

Baldez Lisa

Titolo

Why women protest : women's movements in Chile / / Lisa Baldez [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12531-6

0-511-14770-8

0-511-75628-3

0-511-04517-4

0-511-30497-8

1-280-43391-4

0-511-17738-0

0-521-81150-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Disciplina

305.42/0983

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Chile - History - 20th century

Protest movements - Chile

Women - Political activity

Gender identity - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; 1 Why Women Protest; 2 Mothers of the Cold War, Daughters of the Revolution; PART ONE Women Against Allende; PART TWO Women Against Pinochet; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why do women protest? Under what conditions do women protest on the basis of their gender identity? Professor Baldez answers in terms of tipping, timing and framing. She relies on the concept of tipping to identify the point at which diverse organizations converge to form a women's movement. She argues that two conditions trigger this mobilization among women: partisan realignment, understood as the emergence of a new set of issues around which political elites define themselves, and women's decision to frame realignment in terms of



widely held norms about gender difference. To illustrate these claims, she compares two very different women's movements in Chile: the mobilization of women against President Salvador Allende (1970-3) and that against General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). Despite differences between these two movements, both emerged amidst a context of partisan realignment and framed their concerns in terms of women's exclusion from the political arena.