Globalization and the women’s movement in Chile

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

9 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/18/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Political science

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Summary :

Introduction
The effect of neoliberalism in Latin America
The importance of social capital in maintaining democracy
Different forms of government in Chile
Women's movement against Allende's socialist government
Casa Amiga: A crisis zone for women in northern Mexico
Women's movements in Latin America
The creation of SERNAM
The role of neoliberalism
Current issues in the women movement
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

globalization, namely the neoliberal economic policies and democratic decentralized market oriented state, is considered to be both a positive and negative development. globalization intends to improve the conditions of developing countries so that they may experience all the benefits of technology that the industrialized world experiences. However, the conditions globalization causes in countries where the environment is not conducive to neoliberal economic policies or a democratic decentralized market oriented state can be harmful to the people of those countries. Are these harms strong enough to produce people to mobilize in opposition to them? I argue that globalization triggers social movements, as it is evident in the case of the women's movement in chile during the post-transition period from an authoritarian government to a democracy.The women's movement in chile is relevant to the theoretical model our class developed as through previous case studies we hypothesized that globalization, as defined by neoliberal economic policies, increased communication and information and the democratic decentralized, market-oriented state, was a trigger for social movements emergence in Latin America.