The shield of the weak [electronic resource] : feminism and the state in Uruguay, 1903-1933 / Christine Ehrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehrick, Christine, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Uruguay--History.

Women.

Feminism--Uruguay--History.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque [N.M.] : University of New Mexico Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A timely study of women's social advancement in Uruguay during a period of unprecented political reform early in the twentieth century.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women and Politics in "The Model Country"; Prologue: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Batllismo and Feminismo; 1: The First Feminisms: State Building and Women's Organizing, 1880s-1915; 2: Batllista Ideology and Policy: Gender, Class, and the Politics of Compensation, 1910-1933; 3: Women and the "National Family": Education, Social Assistance, and the State; 4: Liberal Feminism, 1916-1932; 5: The Catholic Ladies' League after Batlle, 1916-1932; 6: Socialists and Communists, 1916-1932

ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-63533-X

0-8263-3470-9

OCLC:

817818754