Partners in Conflict

Tinsman Heidi Tinsman

Description

Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile's latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between men's and women's participation in Chile's Agrarian Reform movement and considers how conflicts over gender and sexuality shape the contours of working-class struggles and national politics.Tinsman restores women to a scholarly narrative that has been almost exclusively about men, recounting the centrality of women's labor to the pre-Agrarian Reform world of the hacienda during the 1950s and recovering women's critical roles in union struggles and land occupations during the Agrarian Reform itself. Providing a theoretical framework for understanding why the Agrarian Reform ultimately empowered men more than women, Tinsman argues that women were marginalized not because the Agrarian Reform ignored women but because, under both the Frei and Allende governments, it promoted the male-headed household as the cornerstone of a new society. Although this emphasis on gender cooperation stressed that men should have more respect for their wives and funneled unprecedented amounts of resources into women's hands, the reform defined men as its protagonists and affirmed their authority over women.This is the first monographic social history of Chile's Agrarian Reform in either English or Spanish, and the first historical work to make sexuality and gender central to the analysis of the reforms.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Chile
• Gender studies
• Chili

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 13 juin 2002
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822383789
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Partners in Conflict

Next Wave New Directions in Women’s Studies A series edited by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman

Heidi Tinsman

Partners in Conflict

The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor

in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, –

Duke University Press Durham & London 

©  Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Bembo with Frutiger display by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

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contents

Maps and Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations xix Introduction 

1PatrónandPeón:Labor and Authority on the Great Estates

2Binding Ties: Campesino Sexuality and Family Negotiations 

3Making Men: Labor Mobilization and Agrarian Reform

4Promoting Gender Mutualism: Rural Education, Mothers’ Centers, and Family Planning 

5Struggling for Land: Worker Bosses and Campesina Militants 

6Revolutionizing Women: Popular Unity and Female Mobilization 

7Coming Apart: Struggle, Sex, and Social Crisis 

Epilogue: –

Notes

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Selected Bibliography

Index

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maps and tables

Maps . Chile and Central Chile, provinces and cities . Provincia de Aconcagua,  

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Tables . Land Tenure in the Aconcagua Valley,   . Distribution of Agricultural Land by Farm Unit Size, Aconcagua Valley,   . Paid Agricultural Labor Force by Job Type, Aconcagua Valley,   . Paid Agricultural Labor Force by Gender and Job Type, Aconcagua Valley,   . Percent of Female and Male Paid Agricultural Workers by Job Type, Aconcagua Valley,   . Campesino Union Membership by Confederation, Chile, –   . Number of Unionized Campesinos by Confederation, Aconcagua Valley and Aconcagua Province  . Agricultural Land Expropriated under Frei, Aconcagua Valley and Chile,  to July of  (in hectares)  . Irrigated Agricultural Land Expropriated under Frei, Aconcagua Valley and Chile,  to July of  (in percentages of total irrigated agricultural land)  . Number of Women in Paid Agricultural Employment, Aconcagua Valley, –  . Number of Men in Paid Agricultural Employment, Aconcagua Valley, – 