Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000 - 346 páginas
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 r
 

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FORGING AGREEMENTS Respectability and Rule
27
CONSTRUCTING A FAMILY WAGE SYSTEM Wage Work and Identities
59
AUTONOMY AND ALLIANCE Feminists Socialists and Citizenship
95
GENDER AND STATE BUILDING Charity Rights and the Professions
123
STATE REGULATION MORALITY AND MATERIAL REFORM
149
SOCIALIST MORALITY GENDER AND CLASS UNITY
185
IN THE INTERSTICES Democracy Representation and the Womens Movement
231
CONCLUSION
253
APPENDIX
275
NOTES
277
BIBLIOGRAPHY
319
INDEX
337
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Página 18 - In my opinion, there are times and places where subjects appear on history's stage as subaltern actors, just as there are times or places in which they play dominant roles. Moreover, at any given time or place, an actor may be subaltern in relation to another, yet dominant in relation to a third. And, of course, there are contexts in which these categories may simply not be relevant. Subalternity defines not the being of a subject but a subjected state of being.
Página 327 - La evolucion del regimen electoral y sus efectos en la representacion de los intereses populares: el caso de Chile, Estudios de ELACP Z4 (Santiago: ELACP, 1971).
Página 16 - The most widespread error of method seems to me that of having looked for this criterion of distinction in the intrinsic nature of intellectual activities, rather than in the ensemble of the system of relations in which these activities (and therefore the intellectual groups who personify them) have their place within the general complex of social relations.
Página 15 - I also believe that it is through the reemergence of these low-ranking knowledges, these unqualified, even directly disqualified knowledges (such as that of the psychiatric patient, of the ill person, of the nurse, of the doctor — parallel and marginal as they are to the knowledge of medicine...
Página 15 - ... painstaking rediscovery of struggles together with the rude memory of their conflicts. And these genealogies, that are the combined product of an erudite knowledge and a popular knowledge, were not possible and could not even have been attempted except on one condition, namely that the tyranny of globalizing discourses with their hierarchy and all their privileges of a theoretical avant-garde was eliminated.
Página xii - In the years it has taken me to research and write this book, I have...
Página 330 - The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women.
Página xiv - The research on which this book is based was funded by a threeyear studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council and a three-year award from the Isaac Newton Trust.

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Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt is associate professor of history at Syracuse University.

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