The Politics Of Moral Sin: Abortion And Divorce In Spain, Chile And Argentina (latin American Studies)
by Merike H. Blofield /
2006 / English / PDF
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This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights
conflict with the views of conservative organized religion.
This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights
conflict with the views of conservative organized religion.
Specifically, it addresses the legalization - or lack thereof -
of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic
countries: Spain, Chile, and Argentina. Offering a vital and
timely contribution to political debates on democratic
consolidation, social policy, gender, politics and religion, it
challenges many of the accepted assumptions and conclusions in
these fields, arguing that to understand the political dynamics
and policy trajectories on these issues we must first analyze the
distribution of both economic and political power. Merike
Blofield moves the debate away from a (unitary) focus on values
and public opinion to an analysis of how economic, social and
political structures give certain actors more power than others.
The topics covered should appeal to a broad readership interested
in the difficulties of democratic consolidation in Latin America,
and the obstacles to social policy reform in a region with such
high levels of inequality. The analysis presented in
Specifically, it addresses the legalization - or lack thereof -
of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic
countries: Spain, Chile, and Argentina. Offering a vital and
timely contribution to political debates on democratic
consolidation, social policy, gender, politics and religion, it
challenges many of the accepted assumptions and conclusions in
these fields, arguing that to understand the political dynamics
and policy trajectories on these issues we must first analyze the
distribution of both economic and political power. Merike
Blofield moves the debate away from a (unitary) focus on values
and public opinion to an analysis of how economic, social and
political structures give certain actors more power than others.
The topics covered should appeal to a broad readership interested
in the difficulties of democratic consolidation in Latin America,
and the obstacles to social policy reform in a region with such
high levels of inequality. The analysis presented inThe
Politics of Moral Sin
The
Politics of Moral Sin also deepens our understanding of why
and how European countries have been so successful in limiting
the indulgence of organized religion and in promoting women's
rights.
also deepens our understanding of why
and how European countries have been so successful in limiting
the indulgence of organized religion and in promoting women's
rights.