Engendering revolution : women, unpaid labor, and maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela / Rachel Elfenbein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elfenbein, Rachel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor women--Venezuela--Social conditions.

Poor women.

Poor women--Venezuela.

Women--Political activity--Venezuela.

Women.

Unpaid labor--Venezuela.

Unpaid labor.

Feminism--Venezuela--History.

Feminism.

History.

Women--Political activity.

Social conditions.

Venezuela--Social conditions--1999-.

Venezuela.

Venezuela--Politics and government--1999-.

Politics and government.

Poor women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction. The unpaid labor and suffering of the women undergirding the Bolivarian revolution

Out of the margins : the struggle for the rights to state recognition of women's unpaid housework and social security for homemakers

Between fruitless legislative initiatives and executive magic : contestations over the implementation of homemakers' social security

State imaginations of popular motherhood within the revolution : the institutional design of Madres del Barrio Mission

Regulating motherhood in Madres del Barrio : intensifying yet disregarding the unpaid labor of the mothers of the Bolivarian revolution

In the shadows of the magical revolutionary state : popular women's work where the state did not reach

Mobilized yet contained within chavista populism : popular women's organizing around the 2012 organic labor law

Conclusion : imagining a more dignified map for popular women's unpaid labor and power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477319130

1477319131

9781477319147

147731914X

OCLC:

1083701110