Women as Political Actors: The Move from Maternalism to Citizenship Rights and Power

Abstract

Almost thirty years have passed since Elsa Chaney first wrote of Latin America's supermadres—the concept she coined to describe women elected to public office in Peru and Chile (Chaney 1973). Her book of the same title, published in 1979, was one of the first works on women and politics in the region. Based on 167 interviews with "first generation" women in the late 1960s, Chaney proposed the following thesis:

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