The essays compiled in this volume explore “the dynamic process, of advances and backward steps, of reforms and counterreforms, that has characterized Chilean higher education” since the country gained independence almost two centuries ago (p. x). They do so, crucially, through the lenses of gender, class, and ethnicity. With this approach, and this is the book’s central claim, they provide new viewpoints and fresh insights on the subject, going beyond the existing secondary literature, which, Robert Austin Henry maintains, mainly pays attention to the roles played by university-based intellectuals in Chile’s system of higher education in particular, and in national politics in general. The volume claims to achieve what other publications fail to do, such as Academic Rebels in Chile by Iván Jaksić (1989), the only study explicitly identified as representative of this trend and singled out for criticism by Henry. In view of the overall thrust of the book,...
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