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Gendered Compromises

Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950

By: Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

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Paperback | 27 November 2000

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With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, 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 ideology. Tracing the complex negotiations surrounding the implementation of new labor, health, and welfare policies, she shows that professionals in health and welfare agencies sought to regulate gender and sexuality within the working class and to consolidate the male-led nuclear family as the basis of societal stability. Leftists collaborated in these efforts because they felt that strong family bonds would generate a sense of class belonging and help unify the Left, while feminists perceived male familial responsibility as beneficial for women. Diverse actors within civil society thus reworked the norms of masculinity and femininity developed by state agencies and political leaders--even as others challenged those ideals. |Karin Rosemblatt examines how and why the aims of feminists, socialists, labor activists, social workers, physicians, and political leaders converged around a shared gender ideology in 1930s and 40s Chile under a reformist popular-front government. She shows how these ideas of traditional gender roles became entrenched during this period and helped to shape Chile's evolving national identity.

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A valuable and original contribution to our understanding of the history of Chile, the Popular Front, feminism, the Left, labor, professionals, and the state, and of the interactions amongst them. Written with intelligence and filled with interesting arguments and perceptive analyses. (Peter Winn, Tufts University) Labor history scholars and specialists in women's studies will welcome [Rosemblatt's] contribution to modern Latin American social history."Choice" ï¿½Anï¿½ important and welcome book."Latin American Studies" A solid and sophisticated book that should appeal not only to Chileanists but also to other students of social history."American Historical Review" This exciting and significant study redefines scholarly understanding of how politics really worked in Chile."Journal of Social History" A stellar model for feminist subaltern studies."Feminist Studies" [An] important and welcome book."Latin American Studies"

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Politics & Government History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Social Services & Welfare

Preface	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Forging Agreements: Respectability and Rule	p. 27
Constructing A Family Wage System: Wage Work and Identities	p. 59
Autonomy and Alliance: Feminists, Socialists, and Citizenship	p. 95
Gender and State Building: Charity, Rights, and the Professions	p. 123
State Regulation, Morality, and Material Reform	p. 149
Socialist Morality, Gender, and Class Unity	p. 185
In the Interstices: Democracy, Representation, and the Women's Movement	p. 231
Conclusion	p. 253
Appendix	p. 275
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 319
Index	p. 337
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Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950

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