First-Wave Feminism and Women's Civil and Political Rights in South America

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-11131-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

This book analyzes the context, process and content of the reform of married women’s property rights in seven Spanish-speaking South American countries--Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela—between 1900 and the early 1950s.

It investigates how the reforms enacted earlier in the United States, England and continental Europe, and national antecedents and conditions informed the ideas of feminists, jurists and politicians, and shows how their interaction influenced the content of the reforms attained. It highlights the role of feminists and their organizations in achieving stronger property rights, emphasizing their proposals to reform the civil code. The book argues that while most feminists framed their arguments in maternalist terms—that they needed stronger rights to be better wives and mothers—their proposals to reform the marital regime fell along a continuum that ranged from accepting the husband as sole household head to gender equality in marriage. Since the long-run goal was to attain equal civil and political rights, the book also demonstrates how these two demands, for stronger property rights and suffrage, influenced their strategies and what feminists were able to achieve.

It contributes to a long-standing discussion on the relationship between socioeconomic and legal change and brings the findings of recent scholarship and a vast array of primary materials only available in Spanish to an English-speaking audience, interpreting legal concepts and debates in a manner accessible to social scientists. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book supports the construction of a feminist legal history of marital regimes. It will be of interest to historians, legal scholars and feminists across a range of disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deere, Carmen Diana

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Pathways to Reform of the Marital Regime and Women’s Suffrage 2. Ecuador in the Vanguard on Women’s Rights 3. Argentina’s Pioneering Feminists: Limited Early Gains in Property Rights and Delayed Suffrage 4. Chile’s Piecemeal Process towards Women’s Civil and Political Rights 5. Peru’s Lengthy Path to Civil Code Reform and Women’s Suffrage 6. Colombia as an Innovator in Marital Regime Reform yet a Laggard in Women Organizing for Rights 7. Venezuela’s Staggard Advances for Women under Liberalism and a Democratic Transition 8. Uruguay’s Unique Path: Women’s Suffrage Prior to Property Rights 9. The Influence of Feminist Proposals on Civil Code Reform 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Carmen Diana Deere is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies and Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.