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Bonnie S. Anderson. Joyous Greetings:
The First International Women’s Movement, 1830-1860.
NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. 288p.
Victor P. Unda
Washington State University
Anyone who wants to study or write about the first international women’s movement should read Joyous Greetings. This book serves as an important foundation and addresses the sociological constraints existing in the 1800s to explain [...]
Lisa Baldez. Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 227p.
Victor P. Unda
Washington State University
Author Lisa Baldez devotes considerable energy to articulating three theoretical ideas — “tipping,” “timing,” and “framing” — in the book Why Women Protest. She raises numerous questions as to why women historically have protested in Chile and how [...]
In the aftermath of the coup, El Teniente went back to work losing $70 million to $100 million in production, with copper production dropping 37 percent during 1973-74 (Baldez 125). The Feminine Command of El Teniente or FCT lost total control of the strikes in that the military controlled the situation. The FCT helped their [...]
On September 11, 1973, Pinochet “moved quickly to consolidate his newly acquired power” (Church Report 49). La Junta de Gobierno de Chile proposed the idea that Chileans must understand that the coup was a historical event to stop the economic crisis and to stop communism from spreading throughout the nation and ultimately drive the country [...]
During the Allende administration, some social sectors in Chile were displeased with Allende’s nationalization. The miner’s wives of El Teniente located in Rancagüa City were among the displeased. They organized different protests against Allende’s policies. Their protest appeared as a consequence of the government’s nationalization of the mining companies, and the unconstitutional measures of Law [...]
