Women in Uruguayan Communism

Contradictions and Ambiguities, 1920s-1960s

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ID3535992
AutoresGerardo Leibner (0000-0002-0875-1154, Tel Aviv University, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume50
Fascículo3
Páginas643-672
Data de publicação2018-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x17001201
OpenAlexW2765924368
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas20

This article examines the dynamics of women's participation in the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) from the 1920s to the 1960s. Despite its commitment to women's emancipation and to equality between men and women, the PCU's attitudes towards gender equality were often contradictory and its messages were ambiguous. Though it promoted women's participation, the Party oscillated between seeking to overcome social prejudices, upholding principled and dogmatic positions, and accommodating the conservative habits prevalent among the working class. Women were encouraged to take part in activities but not to assume leadership positions. The 1960s, ironically a period characterised by openness and political success, was a decade of regression in gender equality that stood in contrast to the Uruguayan Communists' long trajectory concerning women's rights

Class (philosophy) · Communism · Emancipation · Epistemology · Gender equality · Openness to experience · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology · Social Psychology