The politics of motherhood
Subtitle: maternity and women's rights in twentieth-century Chile
By: Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney.
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822960430
Subjects: Motherhood -- Political aspects -- Chile; Women's rights -- Chile
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public health, managed motherhood, and patriarchy in a modernizing nation; title: Local agency, changed global paradigms, and the burden of motherhood; title: Planning motherhood under Christian democracy; title: Gendered citizenship rights on the peaceful road to socialism; title: From mothers' rights to women's rights in a nation under siege; title: International encounters and women's empowerment under dictatorship and redemocratization.