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Dissertation Information for Christine Theresa Ehrick

NAME:
- Christine Theresa Ehrick

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1997)

ADVISORS:
- Jose Carlos Moya

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Ellen Carol DuBois
- Fernando Lopez-Alves

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Obrera, dama, feminista: Women's associations and the welfare state in Uruguay, 1900-1932

Abstract: This dissertation is a comparative history of women's political organizations in Uruguay from 1900 to the enactment of women's suffrage in 1932. It is during these years that Uruguay emerged as the first 'welfare state' in Latin America under the leadership of Jose Batlle y Ordonez, President 1903-1907 and 1911-1915. A combination of institutional, social, and political history, this study grounds the history of women's organizing solidly within this unique social and political context, and demonstrates the way that women of varied social class and ideological persuasion became politically active during these formative years.

Chapters one and two provide an overall history of Uruguay through 1933 and detail the primary social legislation and political philosophies of the era. Chapters three through six explore the liberal feminist movement in detail. Particular attention is paid to the interplay between Colorado Party and Socialist Party forces within the movement, and to the varied memberships of the National Women's Council and the more middle class Women's Suffrage Alliance. Chapter six explores Uruguayan feminism within the larger Pan-American context. Chapter seven is a history of the Liga de Damas Catolicas (or Catholic Ladies' League), exploring both the influence of the ideals of 'Christian feminism' and the way the growth of the Right towards the end of this era is reflected in the organization's ideology and practice. Finally, chapter eight looks at women and the Left. Beginning with Anarchist women's groups, this chapter then looks at organizations and debates within the Socialist and Communist Parties related to the 'woman question'.

This study demonstrates that all of these women's groups were aware of and in competition with each other throughout this era, underlining the necessity for understanding the full spectrum of women's political organizing in a given place and time. It also contributes to our conception of the Uruguayan state, by providing a more nuanced and complex picture of relations between state and civil society than often depicted.

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