Lgbtq Politics In Nicaragua

Author : Karen Kampwirth
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816545254

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LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua by Karen Kampwirth Pdf

The modern political tumult of Nicaragua includes revolution, dictatorship, and social movements. LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua explores the untold stories of the LGBTQ community of Nicaragua and its role in the recent political history of the country. Karen Kampwirth is a renowned scholar of the Nicaraguan Revolution, who has been writing at the intersection of gender and politics for decades. In this chronological telling of the last fifty years of political history in Nicaragua, Kampwirth deploys a critical new lens: understanding politics from the perspective of the country’s LGBTQ community. Kampwirth details the gay and lesbian guerrillas in the 1960s and 1970s, Nicaragua’s first openly gay television wizard in the 1980s, and the attempts by LGBTQ revolutionaries to create a civil rights movement and the subsequent squashing of that movement by the ruling Sandinista party. She analyzes the shifting political alliances, the rise of strong feminist and LGBTQ movements in Nicaragua, and the attempts by the administration of Daniel Ortega to co-opt and control these movements. Ultimately, this is a story of struggle and defeat, progress and joy. This timely book provides a well-documented review of LGBTQ politics in modern Nicaragua, helping us to see the Sandinista Revolution and its ongoing aftermath in a new light.

Author : Karen Kampwirth
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816542796

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LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua by Karen Kampwirth Pdf

"LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua provides the previously untold history of the LGBTQ community's emergence as political actors-from revolutionary guerillas to civil rights activists"--

Author : Karen Kampwirth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461403593

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Latin America's New Left and the Politics of Gender by Karen Kampwirth Pdf

The majority of Latin Americans now live in countries that are governed by democratically elected governments on the political left, which is unprecedented in that region. This book analyzes this occurrence by asking a question that up until now has been largely ignored in the literature on the contemporary Latin American left: to what extent have these governments governed with, and promoting the interests of, the women's movements that are an important part of their base of support? This question is examined by focusing on a critical case that is rarely analyzed in the literature on the new Latin American left, the case of Nicaragua. The broader implications for Latin America will be shown, making this book of interest to researchers and graduate students in Latin American studies as well as gender studies and political science.

Author : Javier Corrales,Mario Pecheny
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973713

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The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America by Javier Corrales,Mario Pecheny Pdf

The city of Buenos Aires has guaranteed all couples, regardless of gender, the right to register civil unions. Mexico City has approved the Cohabitation Law, which grants same-sex couples marital rights identical to those of common-law relationships between men and women. Yet, a gay man was murdered every two days in Latin America in 2005, and Brazil recently led the world in homophobic murders. These facts illustrate the wide disparity in the treatment and rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations across the region. The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America presents the first English-language reader on LGBT politics in Latin America. Representing a range of contemporary works by scholars, activists, analysts, and politicians, the chapters address LGBT issues in nations from Cuba to Argentina. In their many findings, two main themes emerge: the struggle for LGBT rights has made significant inroads in the first decade of the twenty-first century (though not in every domain or every region); and the advances made were slow in coming compared to other social movements. The articles uncover the many obstacles that LGBT activists face in establishing new laws and breaking down societal barriers. They identify perhaps the greatest roadblock in Latin American culture as an omnipresent system of “heteronormativity,” wherein heterosexuality, patriarchalism, gender hierarchies, and economic structures are deeply rooted in nearly every level of society. Along these lines, the texts explore specific impediments including family dependence, lack of public spaces, job opportunities, religious dictums, personal security, the complicated relationship between leftist political parties and LGBT movements in the region, and the ever-present “closets,” which keep LGBT issues out of the public eye. The volume also looks to the future of LGBT activism in Latin America in areas such as globalization, changing demographics, the role of NGOs, and the rise of economic levels and education across societies, which may aid in a greater awareness of LGBT politics and issues. As the editors posit, to be democratic in the truest sense of the word, nations must recognize and address all segments of their populations.

Author : Cymene Howe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822378969

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Intimate Activism by Cymene Howe Pdf

Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene Howe analyzes how local activists balanced global discourses regarding human rights and identity politics with the contingencies of daily life in Nicaragua. Though they were initially spurred by the antisodomy measure, activists sought to change not only the law but also culture. Howe emphasizes the different levels of intervention where activism occurs, from mass-media outlets and public protests to meetings of clandestine consciousness-raising groups. She follows the travails of queer characters in a hugely successful telenovela, traces the ideological tensions within the struggle for sexual rights, and conveys the voices of those engaged in "becoming" lesbianas and homosexuales in contemporary Nicaragua.

Author : Elisabeth Jay Friedman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002604

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Seeking Rights from the Left by Elisabeth Jay Friedman Pdf

Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the “Pink Tide” in eight national cases—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela—the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender- and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights. Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals that the Left's more general political and economic projects have been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. Contributors: Sonia E. Alvarez, María Constanza Diaz, Rachel Elfenbein, Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Niki Johnson, Victoria Keller, Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas, Amy Lind, Marlise Matos, Shawnna Mullenax, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, Diego Sempol, Constanza Tabbush, Gwynn Thomas, Catalina Trebisacce, Annie Wilkinson

Author : Hilary Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1908857773

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A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? by Hilary Francis Pdf

Author : Mauricio Espinoza,Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez,Ignacio Sarmiento
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816551934

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Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century by Mauricio Espinoza,Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez,Ignacio Sarmiento Pdf

The reality of Central American migrations is broad, diverse, multidirectional, and uncertain. It also offers hope, resistance, affection, solidarity, and a sense of community for a region that has one of the highest rates of human displacement in the world. Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century tackles head-on the way Central America has been portrayed as a region profoundly marked by the migration of its people. Through an intersectional approach, this volume demonstrates how the migration experience is complex and affected by gender, age, language, ethnicity, social class, migratory status, and other variables. Contributors carefully examine a broad range of topics, including forced migration, deportation and outsourcing, intraregional displacements, the role of social media, and the representations of human mobility in performance, film, and literature. The volume establishes a productive dialogue between humanities and social sciences scholars, and it paves the way for fruitful future discussions on the region’s complex migratory processes. Contributors Guillermo Acuña Andrew Bentley Fiore Bran-Aragón Tiffanie Clark Mauricio Espinoza Hilary Goodfriend Leda Carolina Lozier Judith Martínez Alicia V. Nuñez Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez Manuel Sánchez Cabrera Ignacio Sarmiento Gracia Silva Carolina Simbaña González María Victoria Véliz

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521599709

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Difference Troubles by Steven Seidman Pdf

Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics.

Author : William N. Eskridge Jr,Robin Fretwell Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108470155

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Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground by William N. Eskridge Jr,Robin Fretwell Wilson Pdf

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community's core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

Author : Clayton J. Whisnant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781939594105

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Queer Identities and Politics in Germany by Clayton J. Whisnant Pdf

Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities and Politics in Germany describes these events in detail, from vibrant gay social scenes to the Nazi persecution that sent many LGBT people to concentration camps. Clayton J. Whisnant recounts the emergence of various queer identities in Germany from 1880 to 1945 and the political strategies pursued by early homosexual activists. Drawing on recent English and German-language scholarship, he enriches the debate over whether science contributed to social progress or persecution during this period, and he offers new information on the Nazis' preoccupation with homosexuality. The book's epilogue locates remnants of the pre-1945 era in Germany today.

Author : Tonya D. Callaghan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487522674

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Homophobia in the Hallways by Tonya D. Callaghan Pdf

In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya D. Callaghan interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta.

Author : Emily K. Hobson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520279063

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Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson Pdf

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.

Author : John A. Booth
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458761682

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Understanding Central America by John A. Booth Pdf

The fifth edition of Understanding Central America explains how domestic and global political and economic forces have shaped rebellion and regime change in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker explore the origins and development of the region's political conflicts and its efforts to resolve them. Covering the region's political and economic development from the early 1800s onward, the authors provide a background for understanding Central America's rebellion and regime change of the past forty years. This revised edition brings the Central American story up to date, with special emphasis on globalization, evolving public opinion, progress toward democratic consolidation, and the relationship between Central America and the United States under the Obama administration, and includes analysis of the 2009 Honduran coup d'etat. A useful introduction to the region and a model for how to convey its complexities in language readers will comprehend, Understanding Central America stands out as a must-have resource.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264523180

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Over the Rainbow? The Road to LGBTI Inclusion by OECD Pdf

Discrimination against LGBTI people remains pervasive, while its cost is massive. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the extent to which laws in OECD countries ensure equal treatment of LGBTI people, and of the complementary policies that could help foster LGBTI inclusion.