Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution Nicaragua, el Salvador, Chiapas

Name: Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution Nicaragua, el Salvador, Chiapas
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ISBN: 9780896802391

ISBN-10: 0896802396

ISBN-13: 9780896802391

Edition: 2004

Authors: Karen Kampwirth

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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 story of how the guerrilla wars led to the rise of feminism, why certain women became feminists, and what…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 8/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction. From Feminine Guerrillas to Feminist Revolutionaries



"Building the New Fatherland, We Create the New Woman": Gender Politics in Sandinista Nicaragua



Reacting to the Revolution: Feminist and Antifeminist Politics in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua



Feminists Break Away in El Salvador



Conquering the Space That Is Ours: Women, Civil Society, and the Zapatista Rebellion



Feminism and Revolutionary Movements in Comparative Perspective


Notes


Bibliography


Index