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Dissertation Information for Ericka kim Verba

NAME:
- Ericka kim Verba

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Jose Carlos Moya

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Ellen Carol DuBois
- Maurice Zietlin

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Catholic feminism and accion social femenina (women's social action): The early years of the Lige de Dama Chilenas, 1912--1924

Abstract: My dissertation traces the origins and development of aristocratic Catholic feminism in Chile by examining the ideology and practice of its pioneering association, the Liga de Damas Chilenas over the first and most active decade of its life as an institution. It examines the efforts of Liga members to insert their own conservative position on both the "social" and "woman's question" into the larger debate being waged on these issues, and the activities they undertook intended to contribute to the resolution of these two inter-related problems of modern industrial society. Chapter one focuses on the Liga's intra-class project of the moralization of upper-class women. As a necessary precursor to Chapters three and four, Chapter two examines the aristocratic Catholic position on the social question in Chile, and its proposed resolution via upper-class Catholic social action. Chapter three examines the crucial role the ladies of the Liga were destined to play in this larger project via their more restricted acción social femenina [women's social action]. Chapter four analyzes the aristocratic Catholic position on the complex question of women workers, and what the ladies of the Liga were to do, if not to remedy the situation outright by returning women workers to their "true" place within the home, to at least ensure that their activities were more in conformance with Christian principles. Chapter five examines two social categories of working-class women that were sidelined from the Liga's organizational efforts to uplift working-class women: female domestic servants and prostitutes. The sixth and final chapter analyzes the Liga's position on the "woman's question" or the question of women's rights. Its conclusion assesses the Liga's social impact on its lady members themselves, and on Chilean society in general.

My dissertation forms part of a small but growing number of studies focused on conservative women's movements active throughout Latin America during the first decades of the twentieth century. These conservative women's organizations helped define which issues ended up on the agenda of the larger discussion being waged during the decades this study encompasses on changing gender relations. The findings of this new wave of research, including my own, suggest that the history of the struggle for women's rights in Latin America becomes more complete, if also more complicated, when it takes into account the social activism of reactionary women of the elite.

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