

An edition of Gender politics in Brazil and Chile (2005)
the role of parties in national and local policymaking
By Fiona Macaulay
Publish Date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan,In association with St. Antony's College
Language
eng
Pages
231
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.
subjects: Chile, Chile. Servicio Nacional de la Mujer, Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil), Political parties, Women in politics, Brazil, politics and government, Chile, politics and government, Brazil, social conditions, Chile, social conditions, Women, Political activity, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Government, General, National, Reference, Essays, Gender studies, gender groups, Politics and Government, Frau, Politik