Format:
Online-Ressource (297 p)
ISBN:
9780896804401
Series Statement:
Research in International Studies, Latin America Series no. 43
Content:
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism that combined revolutionary goals of economic equality and social justice with typically feminist aims of equality, nonviolence, and reproductive rights. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with women in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, Karen Kampwirth tells the stor
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. From Feminine Guerrillas to Feminist Revolutionaries; 1. ""Building the New Fatherland, We Create the New Woman,"": Gender Politics in Sandinista Nicaragua; 2. Reacting to the Revolution: Feminist and Antifeminist Politics in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua; 3. Feminists Break Away in El Salvador; 4. Conquering the Space That Is Ours: Women, Civil Society, and the Zapatista Rebellion; 5. Feminism and Revolutionary Movements in Comparative Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780896804401
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780896802391
Additional Edition:
Print version Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution : Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
Language:
English
Keywords:
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