عنوان

Motherhood, social policies and women's activism in Latin America /

(Number (ISBN

3030214028

(Number (ISBN

9783030214029

Erroneous ISBN

303021401X

Erroneous ISBN

9783030214012

Title Proper

Motherhood, social policies and women's activism in Latin America /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alejandra Ramm, Jasmine Gideon, editors.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020 :

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (XXI, 296 pages 10 illustrations) :

Other Physical Details

online resource

Series Title

Studies of the Americas

Text of Note

1. Motherhood, Social Policies and Womens Activism in Latin America: An Overview -- 2. Latin America: A Fertile Ground for Maternalism -- 3. "Taking the Nature Out of Mother": From Politics of Exclusion to Feminisms of Difference and Recognition of Rights -- 4. Constructing Maternalism from Paternalism: The Case of State Milk Programs -- 5. To Not Die in Childbirth: Maternal Health and State Policy, 1930-1980 -- 6. Resistance to Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Maternalism and Conservatism -- 7. "Las madres del plomo": Womens Environmental Activism and Suffering in Northern Chile -- 8. Technocracy and Strategic Maternalism: Housing Policies, 1990-2014 -- 9. LGBTQ-IPV and the Case for Challenging Maternalist Family Violence Paradigms -- 10. Women Miners: Motherhood, Labor Integration, and Unionization -- 11. The Persistent Maternalism in Labor Programs -- 12. Economic Modernization and Redefining Womanhood: Women, Family and Work in a Center Right Wing Government.

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Text of Note

This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and womens activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile. Latin Americas mother-centered kinship system makes it an ideal field in which to study motherhood and maternalism--the ways in which motherhood becomes a public policy issue. As maternalism embraces and enhances gender differences, it has been criticized for deepening gender inequalities. Yet invoking motherhood continues to offer an effective strategy for advancing womens living conditions and rights, and for women themselves to be present in the public sphere. In analyzing these important relationships, the contributors to this volume discuss maternal health, sexual and reproductive rights, labor programs, paid employment, women miners unionization, housing policies, environmental suffering, and LGBTQ intimate partner violence. Alejandra Ramm is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de Valparaíso and Associate Researcher at the Social Sciences Research Institute (ICSO) at the Universidad Diego Portales (UDP), Chile. Jasmine Gideon is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Title

Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America.

International Standard Book Number

9783030214012

Motherhood-- Latin America.

Mothers-- Latin America-- Social conditions.

Motherhood.

Mothers-- Social conditions.

Social policy.

Latin America, Social policy.

Latin America.

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Edition

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Book number

Gideon, Jasmine.

Ramm, Alejandra.

Date of Transaction

20200823092009.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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