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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780373403321

Autore

Rosemblatt Karin Alejandra

Titolo

Gendered compromises [[electronic resource] ] : political cultures and the state in Chile, 1920-1950 / / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000

ISBN

979-88-908697-5-3

0-8078-6095-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

305.3/0983

Soggetti

Sex role - Political aspects - Chile - History - 20th century

Chile Politics and government 1920-1970

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-335) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Forging Agreements: Respectability and Rule; 2. Constructing a Family Wage System: Wage Work and Identities; 3. Autonomy and Alliance: Feminists, Socialists, and Citizenship; 4. Gender and State Building: Charity, Rights, and the Professions; 5. State Regulation, Morality, and Material Reform; 6. Socialist Morality, Gender, and Class Unity; 7. In the Interstices: Democracy, Representation, and the Women's Movement; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930's and 1940's, when reformist popular-front coalitions held power. While other scholars have focused on the economic realignments and novel political pacts that characterized Chilean politics during this era, Rosemblatt explores how gender helped shape Chile's evolving national identity. Rosemblatt examines how and why the aims of feminists, socialists, labor activists, social workers, physicians, and political leaders converged around a shared gender