Bravas, Permitidas, Obsoletas:
Mapuche Women in the Chilean Print Media
Source
doi: 10.1177/0891243207304971 Gender & Society August 2007 vol. 21 no. 4 553-578
Abstract
The author explores how dichotomous
representations of women and Indians came into play in Chilean print
media representations
of Mapuche women from 1997 to 2003, at the
height of conflicts between the Mapuche people, the state, and elites in
southern
Chile. The author finds there were three
competing representations of Mapuche women, which reproduce assumptions
not just
about them but about the people as a whole.
Together, they accentuate, and simultaneously complicate, dichotomous
views of
Indians and women. These media portrayals are
significant because they reflect and reinforce the central principles of
neoliberal
multiculturalism—the prevailing form of
governance in contemporary Latin America—which promotes diversity while
perpetuating
the marginalization of indigenous peoples and
many of their rights. This analysis of images in print media contributes
to
understandings of how race and gender ideologies
continue to inform debates over national belonging in contemporary
Latin
America.
Keywords
0 意見:
張貼留言