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The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic

2018; Duke University Press; Volume: 98; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/00182168-6933952

1527-1900

Anne S. Macpherson,

Cuban History and Society

Book Review| August 01 2018 The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic. By Manley, Elizabeth S.. Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 219 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Anne S. Macpherson Anne S. Macpherson College at Brockport, State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 558–559. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933952 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Anne S. Macpherson; The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 558–559. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933952 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search This book documents the discourses and activities of elite and educated Dominican women who were politically active from the 1920s to the 1970s in collaboration with or opposition to the authoritarian regimes of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (1930–61) and Joaquín Balaguer (1966–78). Giving equal time to both streams of activism, Elizabeth S. Manley aims to debunk myths of women's political absence and silence and to complicate simplifications of their political activism into tropes of angel, mother, victim, martyr, and villain. She also sets out to show that transnational activist women's networks were crucial to both pro- and antiauthoritarian women and that a self-limiting discourse and practice of maternalism—justifying women's political participation in terms of their maternal nature and value to male-led state projects—was common to both camps until the 1970s. Ultimately Manley wants to engage in “gendered narrative repair” in order to help... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: Twentieth–Twenty-First Centuries You do not currently have access to this content.