Htun, Mala

Private lives, public policies : abortion and family equality in Latin America
Htun, Mala - 1999 - Harvard University, Harvard University, iii, 427 leaves.

Palabras claves : aborto; condiciones sociales; derechos de las mujeres; divorcio; estatuto legal; legislación; mujer; política social
País : América latina; Latina America

Resumen : Introduction : Democracy, dictatorship and gender rights ; Three normative models of gender and the state ; Military rule, civil code modernization, and women's property rights ; Completing the agenda : democratic transitions and family equality ; The family, the Church, and the state in the struggle to legalize divorce ; Policy legacies and policy stalemate in the abortion debate ; A disaggregated approach to gender ; Feminist lobbying around the new Brazilian civil code ; Divorce deliberations in the Chilean Constitutional Commission.

Notes : Inglés/anglais/English