This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights
conflict with the views of conservative organized religion.
Specifically, it addresses the legalization - or lack thereof - of
divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic
countries: Spain, Chile, and Argentina. Offering a vital and timely
contribution to political debates on democratic consolidation,
social policy, gender, politics and religion, it challenges many of
the accepted assumptions and conclusions in these fields, arguing
that to understand the political dynamics and policy trajectories
on these issues we must first analyze the distribution of both
economic and political power. Merike Blofield moves the debate away
from a (unitary) focus on values and public opinion to an analysis
of how economic, social and political structures give certain
actors more power than others. The topics covered should appeal to
a broad readership interested in the difficulties of democratic
consolidation in Latin America, and the obstacles to social policy
reform in a region with such high levels of inequality. The
analysis presented in The Politics of Moral Sin also deepens our
understanding of why and how European countries have been so
successful in limiting the indulgence of organized religion and in
promoting women's rights.
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