La bancada femenina en Uruguay: un «actor crítico» para la representación sustantiva de las mujeres en el parlamento

• Autores: Niki Johnson
• Localización: América latina hoy: Revista de ciencias sociales, ISSN 1130-2887, VOL. 66, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Mujeres en política), págs. 145-165
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.14201/alh201466145165
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The Women�s Caucus in Uruguay: a Critical Actor for the Substantive Representation of Women in Parliament
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  • español

    En el marco de los debates contemporáneos sobre la representación política de las mujeres, este artículo se propone a estudiar la bancada femenina en el Parlamento uruguayo en el período 2000-2010 para identificar y analizar a partir de este caso arquetípico en la región las posibilidades y desafíos que plantean las iniciativas de articulación multipartidaria para lograr la representación sustantiva de las mujeres. El análisis explora cómo las distintas dimensiones de la representación �descriptiva, sustantiva y simbólica� se articulan en la composición, funcionamiento, actuación y discurso de este actor colectivo, y evalúa cómo inciden tanto la agencia de diferentes actores/as, como factores contextuales institucionales y coyunturales en la representación sustantiva de las mujeres en el caso uruguayo.

  • English

    Drawing on analytical frameworks proposed in recent scholarship on women�s political representation, this article studies the archetypal case of the bancada femenina (women�s caucus) in the Uruguayan Parliament from 2000-2010 in order to identify and analyse the possibilities and challenges posed by multiparty initiatives among female members of Parliament for achieving women�s substantive representation. The article explores how the different dimensions of representation �descriptive, substantive and symbolic� interact in the composition, functioning, actions and discourse of this collective actor, and evaluates how factors relating to both agency and institutional contexts and conjunctures inform the substantive representation of women in the Uruguayan case.

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