Left-wing populism and feminist politics : women's movements and gender equality policies in Evo Morales' Bolivia

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    • Castaño, Pablo

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Left-wing populism and feminist politics : women's movements and gender equality policies in Evo Morales' Bolivia

Pablo Castaño

(Gender and politics series / series editors, Johanna Kantola)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2022

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book investigates the relation between left-wing populism and feminist politics by analysing three specific aspects. First, whether left-wing populist parties promote gender equality policies, against charges of a general inconsistency between both political projects; Second, how do these parties form their policy-making coalitions in the field of gender equality; Third, how much impact on policy do women's movements have when left-wing populists are in power. The book is focused on the case of Bolivia during the first twelve years of Evo Morales's presidency. The empirical analysis is based on the qualitative content analysis of documents and semi-structured interviews with women's movements' activists, policy-makers and experts in women's movements. The central issue of the book is present throughout the volume, but each empirical chapter can be also read as a semi-autonomous analysis of a specific aspect of the relation between left-wing populism and feminist politics, which increases the interest of the book for different audiences including experts in gender and politics and feminist activists, specialists in Latin American politics, indigenous politics and social movements.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Looking at the Relation between Feminist Politics and Left-Wing Populism through the Bolivian Case. - Chapter 2. Legislation on violence against women in politics, a pioneer policy on gender equality. - Chapter 3. Pragmatism in the formation of policy-making coalitions. - Chapter 4. Women's Movements Institutionalisation and Impact on Policy. - Chapter 5. Conclusions

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