Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973.(Reviews)(Book Review)

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Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973. By Heidi Tinsman (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xxi plus 366 pp.).

This fabulous book offers nuanced, thorough, and incisive analysis of the gender politics of Chile's agrarian reform, one of the most extensive in the world in terms of its redistribution of land. The author adeptly tracks the transformation of family and sexual arrangements that accompanied the agrarian reform's massive redistribution of land and its political mobilization of the rural poor. ...

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