The Politics of Motherhood
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The Politics of Motherhood

Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile

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The Politics of Motherhood

Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile

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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 study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels. The increased legitimacy of women's demands for rights, both locally and globally, has led to some improvements in gender equity. Yet feminists in contemporary Chile continue to face strong opposition from neoconservatism in the Catholic Church and a mixture of public apathy and legal wrangling over reproductive rights and health.

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780822973614
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Public Health, Managed Motherhood, and Patriarchy in a Modernizing Nation
  6. Chapter 2. Local Agency, Changed Global Paradigms, and the Burden of Motherhood
  7. Chapter 3. Planning Motherhood under Christian Democracy
  8. Chapter 4. Gendered Citizenship Rights on the Peaceful Road to Socialism
  9. Chapter 5. From Mothers’ Rights to Women’s Rights in a Nation under Siege
  10. Chapter 6. International Encounters and Women’s Empowerment under Dictatorship and Redemocratization
  11. Postscript
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index