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Rachel Elfenbein
Engendering Revolution: Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela
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ISBN: 9781477319130
Author : Rachel Elfenbein
Published: 2019
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Number of pages: 288
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 229×152
Author : Rachel Elfenbein
Published: 2019
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Number of pages: 288
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 229×152
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In 1999, Venezuela became the first country in the world to constitutionally recognize the socioeconomic value of housework and enshrine homemakers’ social security. This landmark provision was part of a larger project to transform the state and expand social inclusion during Hugo Chávez’s presidency. The Bolivarian revolution opened new opportunities for poor and working-class—or popular—women’s organizing. The state recognized their unpaid labor and maternal gender role as central to the revolution. Yet even as state recognition enabled some popular women to receive public assistance, it also made their unpaid labor and organizing vulnerable to state appropriation.Offering the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, Engendering Revolution demonstrates that the Bolivarian revolution cannot be understood without comprehending the gendered nature of its state-society relations. Showcasing field research that comprises archival analysis, observation, and extensive interviews, these thought-provoking findings underscore the ways in which popular women sustained a movement purported to exalt them, even while many could not access social security and remained socially, economically, and politically vulnerable.
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