Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Table -- Preface -- Methodology -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Why Women Protest -- Tipping -- Timing -- The Chilean Institutional Context -- Framing -- Women's Movements and Women's Interests -- Conclusion -- Overview of the Book -- 2 Mothers of the Cold War, Daughters of the Revolution -- Realignment and the Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement -- María de la Cruz: The Chilean Evita? -- The Cuban Revolution and Women in the Sixties -- The Catholic Church and Vatican II -- The Fear Campaign and the 1964 Presidential Election -- President Frei and the Revolution in Liberty -- The Student Movement and Youth Culture -- Conclusion -- PART ONE Women Against Allende -- 3 The Revolution Hits Home -- The 1970 Presidential Election -- Women Respond to Allende's Election -- Allende's First Year in Office -- Agrarian Reform -- The Shortages -- The Opposition Organizes -- Women in the Opposition Media -- Toward a Unified Opposition -- Conclusion -- 4 Catapulting Men to Action -- Fidel Castro Visits Chile -- The March of the Empty Pots -- The Government Reacts -- The Opposition Unites -- Feminine Power -- The Battle for the Women -- Mothers of the Nation -- The Catholic Church: A Missing Frame -- Women Outside Male Politics -- Conclusion -- 5 "Feminine Power" and the End of The Socialist Revolution -- The Allende Government Responds to Feminine Power -- The Opposition Sustains Women's Power -- The October Strike -- The 1973 Congressional Elections -- Women and Educational Reform -- Wife Power: The Coppermine Strike -- Wife Power: The Military Wives -- Women Call for Allende's Resignation -- Women and the Military Government -- Conclusion -- PART TWO Women Against Pinochet -- 6 Gendered Networks and the Rebirth of Civil Society.

Gendered Repression -- Women's Defense of Human Rights -- Feminism -- Women's Organizing in the Shantytowns -- International Dimensions of Chilean Feminism -- Institutionalization of the Regime -- Conclusion -- 7 Women Defend Life -- The Return of the Empty Pots -- Popular Protest and Coalition Conflict -- Engendering the Opposition -- Framing Women's Political Identity -- "Democracy in the Country and in the Home" -- Women as Agents of History -- Popular Feminism -- Conclusion -- 8 Democracy in the Country and in the Home -- The Democratic Transition and a Partial Realignment (1987-1989) -- Victory for the Opposition -- The Coalition of Women for Democracy -- "A Space in the State" -- The Struggle to Maintain the Women's Movement -- A Feminist in Congress -- Institucionales and Autónomas -- Coalition Politics and the Women's Movement -- Conclusion -- 9 Why Women Protest -- Brazil -- Russia -- East Germany -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.