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Pobladoras, Indigenas, and the State: Conflicts Over Women's Rights in Chile
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by Patricia Richards
Sales Rank: 1659731
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Cover Type: Paperback with 254 pages
Published by: Rutgers University Press June 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813534232
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813534237
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Book Description
Can laws, policies, and agencies that are designed to help women achieve equality with men accommodate differences among women themselves? In Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State, Patricia Richards looks at how Chilean state policy shapes the promotion of womens interests but at the same time limits the advancement of different classes and racial-ethnic groups in various ways.
Chile has made a public commitment to equality between women and men through the creation of a National Womens Service, SERNAM. Yet, indigenous Mapuche women and working-class pobladora activists assert that they have been excluded from programs implemented by SERNAM. Decisions about what constitutes "womens interests" are usually made by middle class, educated, lighter-skinned women, and the priorities and concerns of poor, working-class, and indigenous women have not come to the fore.
Through critical analysis of the role of the state, the diversity of womens movements, and the social and political position of indigenous peoples in Latin America, Richards provides an illuminating discussion of the ways in which the state defines womens interests and constructs womens citizenship. This book makes important contributions to feminist studies, theories of citizenship, and studies of the intersections of class, gender, and race.
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About The Author
Patricia Richards is an assistant professor of sociology and womens studies at the University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.
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This review is from: Pobladoras Indigenas and the State: Conflicts Over Women's Rights in Chile (Hardcover)
An incisive look at the women's movement in Chile. The context is Chile's ending of Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990 and the subsequent gradual emergence of a pluralistic democracy. In this society, it has now become possible for many groups to overtly assert their influence. Richards studies how various female social groups have fared. The problem is that there is no simple pure gender issue that most Chilean women might agree on. Richards shows the complexity of their society. Many divisions overlay. The concerts of educated, middle class women might not fully intersect those of struggling urban working class women. Ethnicity and race also intrude. Rural women might be indigenous, rather than of European descent. Richards especially devotes attention to the Mapuche and their dealings with the government. The Mapuche were the only South American tribe in the Spanish Empire that the Spanish never defeated. Richards interviewed many Mapuche female leaders to find their concerns, which she summarises and analyses for us.
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