Supermadre: Women in Politics in Latin America

by Elsa M. Chaney

The title of this book, Supermadre, is ironic. It means, not that women have begun to exercise real power in Latin American political life, but that their participation is mostly confined to roles that are extensions of their roles as mothers-health, education, welfare, for example-and then only on the lower levels of policy-making.

Elsa Chaney begins her study with an examination of various attempts to explain women's virtual absence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292772637
• ISBN13: 9780292772632
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"