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Women, Feminism and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940 (Engendering Latin America)

Name: Women, Feminism and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940 (Engendering Latin America)
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ISBN: 9780585300672

Asuncion Lavrin

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Feminists in the Southern Cone countries—Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay—between 1910 and 1930 obliged political leaders to consider gender in labor regulation, civil codes, public health programs, and politics. Feminism thus became a factor in the modernization of these geographically linked but diverse societies in Latin America. Although feminists did not present a unified front in the discussion of divorce, reproductive rights, and public-health schemes to regulate sex and marriage, this work identifies feminism as a trigger for such discussion, which generated public and political debate on gender roles and social change. Asunci?n Lavrin recounts changes in gender relations and the role of women in each of the three countries, thereby contributing an enormous amount of new information and incisive analysis to the histories of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

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Year:

1998

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0803279736

ISBN 13:

9780585300672