Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973

by Heidi Tinsman

Book Overview

Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile's latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between men's and women's participation in Chile's Agrarian Reform movement and considers how conflicts over gender and sexuality shape the contours of working-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329220
• ISBN13: 9780822329220
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Lucid and Insightful

In Partners in Conflict, Heidi Tinsman produces exactly the kind of feminist historical scholarship Joan Wallach Scott famously called for in the 1980s. Easily the best monograph on social struggle I've read. Highly recommended.