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del la Varis-Woodcock, Victoria Julietta Vera 2016-12-09T00:51:51Z 2016-12-09T00:51:51Z 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10179/10073 Q112923888 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112923888 Chile’s neoliberal political economy appears to frustrate women’s empowerment. The privatisation of social services combines with minimalist social provisioning to make women’s social reproduction burdens greater. Cultural expectations linking women’s identities to care complicate the stringencies of the neoliberal context. The research carries out a qualitative investigation into the empowerment practices of ComunidadMujer, a prominent feminist organisation with a history of activism on women's equality issues. By comparing their practices with the testimonies of diverse Chilean women sharing their experiences, this research reveals that ComunidadMujer’s discourses exemplify, rather than challenge neoliberal logic. An interpretative exploration of the data uncovers women’s uncertainty and disempowerment, not due entirely to conditions of socio-economic equality, but also to certain problematic discourses inflecting subjectivity, which disregard social reproduction. en Massey University The Author Searching for empowerment : Chilean women & the case of ComunidadMujer : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Politics at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand Thesis Politics Massey University Masters Master of Arts (M.A.) del la Varis-Woodcock, Victoria open.access