The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century ChileWith the 2006 election of Michelle Bachelet as the first female president and women claiming fifty percent of her cabinet seats, the political influence of Chilean women has taken a major step forward. Despite a seemingly liberal political climate, Chile has a murky history on women's rights, and progress has been slow, tenuous, and in many cases, non existent. Chronicling an era of unprecedented modernization and political transformation, Jadwiga E.