Heidi E. TinsmanAssociate Professor, History |
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Research Interests |
Latin America, Women's history, Labor history | |
| URL | www.hnet.uci.edu/history/faculty/tinsman/ | |
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Academic Distinctions | Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow, 2004-2007 | |
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Research Abstract |
My research and teaching interests focus on 20th Century Latin American social history, gender history, and labor history. In particular, I am concerned with the way sexuality and race interface with class relations, popular culture, and social movements to shape working class lives. I seek to place both "the history of women/men" and the "history of workers" within a broader context of community, national, and transnational dynamics. I have recently finished a project on rural Chile between 1950 and the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende. I analyze the impact of Chile's dramatic Agrarian Reform on campesino (peasant) gender relations and political empowerment. I look at the competing approaches of Catholics and Marxists to mobilizing and uplifting men and women as sexual beings. I argue that despite the enormous political and material gains for all rural people, the Agrarian Reform ultimately bolstered men's sexual and economic authority over women. My current research explores the impact of Chile's post-1973 military dictatorship on rural society. I am considering the social consequences of women's incorporation into "new export-industries" and the effect of authoritarianism on masculinity. |
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| Publications | Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002) | |
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"Household Patrones: Wife-Beating and Sexual Control in Rural Chile, 1964-1988," forthcoming publication in Daniel James and John French, eds., The Politics of Working Class Womanhood, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. |
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| "El Rey del Rancho: Violencia Domestica y Control Sexual en el Campo, 1958-1988," Disciplina y Desacato: Historias y Estudios de Genero en Chile XX, Santiago: Sur Profesionales/CEDEM, 1995. | ||
| "The Indispensible Services of Sisters: Considering Domestic Service in Latin America andUnited States Studies," Comparative Approaches," Journal of Women's History, Bloomington, Spring, 1992 | ||
| "Behind the Sexual Division of Labor: Connecting Sex to Capitalist Production," Yale Journal of International Law, New Haven, Winter, 1992. | ||
| Grants | Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant, 2002-2003 | |
| American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Research Grant (SSRC-NEH), 2002-2003 | ||
| University of California Pacific Rim Faculty Research Grant, 2002-2003 | ||
| UCLA Institute for Labor and Employment Faculty Research Grant, 2003-2003 | ||
| Mellon Dissertation Grant, Yale University, 1994-1995 | ||
| Social Science Research Council Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-1992 | ||
| Inter-American Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-1992 | ||
| Henry Hart Rice International Research Grant, 1991 | ||
| Yale Council on International-Area Studies Dissertation Research Grant, 1990 | ||
| Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University, 1986-1988 | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3319 | |
| Last updated | 11/16/2005 | |