Jane L. Christie

Negotiating Gendered Discourses (eBook, PDF)

Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It has been argued that the first presidential campaign of Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina used a rhetoric of newness. Some political observers have said that as the "first women" to successfully run for the highest office in these countries, they were presented as the new faces of democracy. These observers argued that gender was not a determining factor in their electoral success, but the focus on this "first women" frame did generate heavily gendered criticisms of these two candidates. Negotiating Gendered Discourses addresses these views by asking how the gender factor is negotiated when women from the Southern Cone of Latin America run for high political office. In particular, Jane L. Christie examines how Bachelet and Fernández positioned themselves in relation to the numerous women-led social movements, and in doing so, reveals points of intersection between these contemporary political discourses and existing sources of female authority when negotiating complicated ideological debates about human rights, the economy, and women's rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216312628
• Artikelnr.: 74844846

Autorenporträt

Jane L. Christie is a visiting academic with Politics and International Relations, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests center on Latin America, with a special focus on Latin American women in politics and social movements. In addition to her Latin American studies background, Jane's foundational academic background in language acquisition, linguistics, and translation studies has prepared the way for a multi-disciplinary approach to research. The majority of her other publications place a special focus on language behavior at the intersection of indigenous and "European" cultures.