women's movements in Chile
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Baldez, Lisa
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B4080 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, politieke participatie, politici, acties, Chili
- Description
- Baldez answers the question why women protest, in terms of three concepts: tipping, timing, and framing. She relies on the concept of tipping to identify the main object of study - the point at which diverse organizations converge to form a women's movement. She argues that two conditions trigger the mobilization among women: partisan realignment, understood as the emergence of a set of issues around which political elites define themselves, and women's division to frame realignment in terms of widely held norms about gender difference. To illustrate these claims, she compares two different women's movements in Chile: the mobilization of women against President Salvador Allende and that against General Augusto Pinochet. Despite important differences between these two movements, both emerged amidst a context of partisan realignment and framed their concerns in terms of women's exclusion from the political arena.