Gender politics in Brazil and Chile
Subtitle: the role of parties in national and local policymaking
By: Fiona Macaulay.
Series: St. Antony's series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; In association with St. Antony's College
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil); Chile. Servicio Nacional de la Mujer; Women in politics -- Brazil; Women in politics -- Chile; Political parties -- Brazil; Political parties -- Chile
Description: "This study compares two Latin American cases. The first analyzes the National Women's Ministry (SERNAM) in Chile, a country with a history of ideological conflict, strong parties and centralized government. The second examines the local administrations of the left-wing Workers' Party in Brazil, in a political environment shaped by clientelism, weak parties and decentralization. This is the first study to focus exclusively on parties as gendered and gendering organizations, analyzing them not just in terms of ideology, but also of their individual party histories and cultures, expressed as a gendered political habitus and sociability. This book also highlights the spatiality of party and gender politics by examining local as well as national government."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.