The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women’s Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile

Acknowledgments

|| xi || A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S I C, my friends Fanny Berlagoscky Mora and Lorena de los Ángeles Núñez Carrasco have supported me when I needed them most, and they have continued to share insights on questions of life, large and small. Special thanks to my dear sister, Bernhild B. Pieper, for making time to travel to Santiago to help me through troubles I could not have foreseen.Throughout my on-site research my great friend, the distinguished historian María Angélica Illanes, has offered support, invaluable professional advice, and stimulating, creative exchanges at her tertulias and other social gatherings. Historian Cristián Pérez has helped me gain a better understanding of the Chilean left even as he, at times, disagrees with my analytical conclusions. I am also grateful for the helpful information by Lidia Casas, Alejandra Faúndez, Josefina Hurtado, Francisca Pérez Prado,TeresaValdés, and many other feminists, academics, and activists who were willing to share insights and concerns. I would like to give special acknowledgments to the advisers and colleagues who have taught me the skills of professional research,have shared insightful critiques, and have encouraged me to write and rewrite my analysis of Chilean history and women’s rights. I am grateful for the kind and convincing advice of Samuel L. Baily, and for the guidance MarkWasserman, John Gillis, June Nash, Rayna Rapp, and Peter Winn provided in the early stages of my work. Nancy Carnevale, Noah Elkin, Mary Poole, Stacy Sewell, and JeremyVaron have been great readers and peer critics. Karin A. Rosemblatt generously guided me in my first research experiences on location. I also thank other historians who research and write about Chilean history, especially Elizabeth Q. Hutchison for her constructive critical assessment of my analytical approaches, and Margaret Power and Corinne Pernet for the comments, confirmations, and critical views they provided to help me move along. In the stages of writing the manuscript and completing the seemingly impossible task of presenting the complexities of a gendered history of twentiethcentury Chile, Stephen Neufeld and Michael Rembis provided insightful, clever, creative, constructive comments that helped me stay on track and made me continue thinking and writing. Donna Guy provided perceptive professional encouragement to keep me going. Joseph Benham has allowed me to Acknowledgments|| xii || use his photographs and kindly allocated time to share some experiences he acquired as a journalist in South America.And Cathy Lyders generously volunteered her professional skills, edited chapters, and provided first-reader responses that proved invaluable. Many generous colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Arizona have helped as well: thanks especially to Katherine Morrissey for helping me define the project early on; to Kevin Gosner for reading chapter drafts; and to Karen Anderson, Bill Beezley, Bert Barickman, Susan Crane, Martha Few,Alison Futrell, H. Michael Gelfand, and Steve Johnstone for helping me along in different stages on the way. I deeply appreciated the comments and constructive critiques by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara and George Reid Andrews, who also supported my selection of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Susan Besse’s generous reading of close-to-final drafts helped me present a more coherent argument—and her observant critiques were, as usual, right to the point. Thanks also to James Douglas Lockhart for helping me proofread the manuscript before submission. Last, but not least, I truly thank all the anonymous reviewers for the constructive tone of their critiques and for their efforts in helping to make this a better book.The University of Pittsburgh Press’s acquisitions editor, Joshua Shanholtzer, and freelance editorAmy Smith Bell provided reliable and timely support.All flaws that might persist in the book remain my own. In the process of research and writing, I also benefited from significant institutional support.While still active as a group, the Colectivo deAtención Primaria de Salud in Santiago’s Bellavista neighborhood allowed me to participate and learn in meetings and conferences.They gave me not only office space, but also a friendly place to work.The academics and staff of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Santiago provided an intellectual “home away from home,” library and computer access, and contacts to fellow researchers that were priceless. A grant from the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI) at the University of Arizona awarded me with much needed time to write. I...