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Gender politics in Brazil and Chile : the role of parties in national and local policymaking / Fiona Macaulay.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: St. Antony's series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))Publisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Oxford : Palgrave Macmillan ; In Association with St. Antony's College, 2006Description: xvi, 231 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0333736141
  • 9780333736142
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.0820981 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.B6 M33 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Gendered and gendering parties -- 2. Porous parties, permeable state -- 3. The Workers' Party, gender and feminism -- 4. O Modo Petista : local-level gender policy -- 5. In their place : the political uses of women -- 6. Between ideologies : the National Women's Ministry -- 7. Decentralization deficits : delivering policy at the local level -- 8. Comparisons and conclusions.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.

1. Gendered and gendering parties -- 2. Porous parties, permeable state -- 3. The Workers' Party, gender and feminism -- 4. O Modo Petista : local-level gender policy -- 5. In their place : the political uses of women -- 6. Between ideologies : the National Women's Ministry -- 7. Decentralization deficits : delivering policy at the local level -- 8. Comparisons and conclusions.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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