| Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile Contributor(s): Baldez, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521010063 ISBN-13: 9780521010061 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Gender Studies - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 2001052842 |
| Lexile Measure: 1310 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile. It studies the women who mobilized against the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende (1970-1973) and those who mobilized against the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). The study documents and explains the similarities that exist between these two very different movements in terms of the moment at which they emerge and the way in which they frame their demands. |