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Why women protest : women's movements in Chile /

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 movement...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baldez, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why women protest: tipping, timing, and framing
  • Mothers of the Cold War, daughters of the Revolution: a historical overview of women and Chilean politics
  • The Revolution hits home: women organize against Allende
  • Catapulting men to action: the march of the empty pots
  • "Feminine power" and the end of the socialist revolution
  • Gendered networks and the rebirth of civil society
  • Women defend life: mass protests and the women's movement
  • Democracy in the country and in the home: women for and against democratic transition
  • Why women protest: comparative evidence.