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Women's citizenship in Peru : the paradoxes of neopopulism in Latin America / Stéphanie Rousseau.
Van Pelt Library HQ1236.5.P4 R68 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rousseau, Stéphanie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--Peru.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- Politics and government.
- Populism.
- Citizenship.
- Peru.
- Citizenship--Peru.
- Populism--Latin America.
- Democracy--Latin America.
- Democracy.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Politics and government--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- Neopopulism is a central issue to understand women's citizenship construction in many countries of contemporary Latin America. As a specific type of political rule based on an unmediated appeal by a powerful state leader to the masses, neopopulism provides both constraints and opportunities for women's organizations to advance their claims. In Peru, President Alberto Fujimori's neopopulist politics (1990-2000) relied on a gendered set of strategies and policies that are analyzed in relation to three different sectors of the women's movement. The findings illustrate that some of the organized women that were most directly mobilized by Fujimori (the poorest) were also those who lost the most during his decade-long rule, while other women in NGOs and parties made more substantial gains. This is the first book-length case study of the gender dimensions of populism that explains the paradoxes entailed for women's participation and citizenship rights in Latin America.
- Contents:
- Neopopulism and women's citizenship in Latin America
- Fujimori's Peru: state and society
- Feminist activism: engendering state policy through NGO work
- Women organizing in shantytowns: state co-optation and the exhaustion of solidarity
- Entering the mainstream political sphere: women as elected representatives
- Conclusion : the paradoxes of constructing women's citizenship under neopopulism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230618154
- 9780230618152
- OCLC:
- 316829415
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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