| Description |
xvii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Contents |
1. Why Women Protest: Tipping, Timing, and Framing -- 2. Mothers of the Cold War, Daughters of the Revolution: A Historical Overview of Women and Chilean Politics -- Pt. 1. Women Against Allende -- 3. The Revolution Hits Home: Women Organize Against Allende -- 4. Catapulting Men to Action: The March of the Empty Pots -- 5. "Feminine Power" and the End of the Socialist Revolution -- Pt. 2. Women Against Pinochet -- 6. Gendered Networks and the Rebirth of Civil Society -- 7. Women Defend Life: Mass Protests and the Women's Movement -- 8. Democracy in the Country and in the Home: Women for and Against Democratic Transition -- 9. Why Women Protest: Comparative Evidence |
| Summary |
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 (1970-1973) and that against General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Protest movements -- Chile -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism -- Political aspects -- Chile -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Political activity -- Chile -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Political activity.
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Protest movements -- Chile -- Case studies.
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Gender identity -- Political aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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History.
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Case studies.
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| LC no. |
2001052842 |
| ISBN |
0521811503 : |
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0521010063 pb |
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