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WOMEN’S INTERESTS “Practical” interests = position within gendered division of labor (e.g., as mothers and spouses) “Strategic” interests = alternative social codes deriving from broad analysis of women’s subordination (e.g., role in workforce, politics) Difference from U.S. interests in economic equality (e.g., glass ceiling) and sexual liberation; emphasis on distinctiveness of womanhood Feminine or feminist?
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LATI 50INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICA
WOMEN, GENDER, AND EMPOWERMENT
STEREOTYPES
Powerless in a macho worldPassivity, docilityFocus on family, childrenLack of interest in politics and public sphereMarianismo (a controversial concept)
WOMEN’S INTERESTS
“Practical” interests = position within gendered division of labor (e.g., as mothers and spouses)
“Strategic” interests = alternative social codes deriving from broad analysis of women’s subordination (e.g., role in workforce, politics)
Difference from U.S. interests in economic equality (e.g., glass ceiling) and sexual liberation; emphasis on distinctiveness of womanhood
Feminine or feminist?
WOMEN AND AUTHORITARIANISM
Compliance: courtship by dictators
Opposition: merger of practical and strategic interests
Articulation of demands: Mothers (and Grandmothers) of Plaza de Mayo in Argentina Arpilleras in Chile “militant motherhood” in Brazil Pro-democratic, left-of-center orientation
WOMEN AND DEMOCRACY
Disintegration of solidarityQuotas in legislatures (~ 30 percent)Female presidents: prominent widows
Isabel Martínez de Perón (Argentina) Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (Nicaragua) Mireya Moscoso (Panama)
Female presidents: successful politicians Michelle Bachelet (Chile) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Argentina) Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) Dilma Rousseff (Brazil)
Comparisons with the United States?
