Women And Revolution In Nicaragua

Author : Victoria González-Rivera
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271068022

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Before the Revolution by Victoria González-Rivera Pdf

Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.

Author : Helen Collinson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001847220

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Women and Revolution in Nicaragua by Helen Collinson Pdf

The dramatic and significant changes that affected Nicaraguan women in the late 1980s are examined in this comprehensive presentation of the realities of women's lives in conditions of war and economic crisis. Written just prior to the February 1990 elections, this book covers things relevant to women in any Third World political climate and throws a new light on some aspects of issues that engage Western women's own concerns. Included are chapters dealing with women's movements; single mothers; reproduction and abortion; machismo and male violence; the "double day"; and survival in the face of the US economic blockade. The role of education, of the church and unions in women's liberation; women workers, rural and urban; women's involvement in defense; and debates around pornography are also explored. The central role of women in the peace and autonomy plans for the Atlantic Coast region is the focus of one chapter. Personal testimonies, case studies, interviews in quotations from Nicaragua newspapers, graphically highlight the viewpoints of the women themselves. How far the political changes consequent upon the 1990 election results will affect the Nicaraguan people remains to be seen, but that the women, who have demonstrated so much courage and initiative, will continue to work for the realization of their aspirations for a better life seems in no doubt.--Back cover.

Author : Martín Meráz García,Martha L. Cottam,Bruno M. Baltodano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429638305

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The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War by Martín Meráz García,Martha L. Cottam,Bruno M. Baltodano Pdf

The revolution in Nicaragua was unique in that a large percentage of the combatants were women. The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War is a study of these women and those who fought in the Contra counter revolution on the Atlantic Coast. This book is a qualitative study based on 85 interviews with female ex-combatants in the revolution and counter revolution from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s, as well as field observations in Nicaragua and the autonomous regions of the Atlantic Coast. It explores the reasons why women fought, the sacrifices they made, their treatment by male combatants, and their insights into the impact of the revolution and counter-revolution on today’s Nicaragua. The analytical approach draws from political psychology, social identity dynamics such as nationalism and indigenous identities, and the role of liberation theology in the willingness of the female revolutionaries to risk their lives. Researchers and students of Gender Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Political History will find this an illuminating account of the Nicaraguan Revolution and counter revolution, which until now has been rarely shared.

Author : Tomás Borge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nicaragua
ISBN : OCLC:15338856

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Women and the Nicaraguan revolution by Tomás Borge Pdf

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0813522145

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Sandino's Daughters by Margaret Randall Pdf

Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others. In Sandino's Daughters Revisited, they speak of their lives during and since the Sandinista administration, the ways in which the revolution made them strong--and also held them back. Ironically, the 1990 defeat of the Sandinistas at the ballot box has given Sandinista women greater freedom to express their feelings and ideas.

Author : Helen Collinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nicaragua
ISBN : 0862329353

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Women and Revolution in Nicaragua by Helen Collinson Pdf

The dramatic and significant changes that affected Nicaraguan women in the late 1980s are examined in this comprehensive presentation of the realities of women's lives in conditions of war and economic crisis. Written just prior to the February 1990 elections, this book covers things relevant to women in any Third World political climate and throws a new light on some aspects of issues that engage Western women's own concerns. Included are chapters dealing with women's movements; single mothers; reproduction and abortion; machismo and male violence; the "double day"; and survival in the face of the US economic blockade. The role of education, of the church and unions in women's liberation; women workers, rural and urban; women's involvement in defense; and debates around pornography are also explored. The central role of women in the peace and autonomy plans for the Atlantic Coast region is the focus of one chapter. Personal testimonies, case studies, interviews in quotations from Nicaragua newspapers, graphically highlight the viewpoints of the women themselves. How far the political changes consequent upon the 1990 election results will affect the Nicaraguan people remains to be seen, but that the women, who have demonstrated so much courage and initiative, will continue to work for the realization of their aspirations for a better life seems in no doubt.--Back cover.

Author : Karen Kampwirth
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896804401

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Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution by Karen Kampwirth Pdf

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 sorts of feminist movements they built. Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas explores how the violent politics of guerrilla struggle could be related to the peaceful politics of feminism. It considers the gains, losses, and internal conflicts within revolutionary women’s organizations. Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution challenges old assumptions regarding revolutionary movements and the legacy of those movements for the politics of daily life. It will appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary audience in political science, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, and Latin American studies as well as to general readers with an interest in international feminism.

Author : Harvey Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Nicaragua
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040578614

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Women and Revolution by Harvey Williams Pdf

Has the condition of women in Nicaragua improved since the Somoza regime was overthrown by the Sandinistas? Or has the revolutionary process only brought superficial changes while leaving the inferior position of women essentially unchanged? The author addresses these questions, by examining the condition of women in Nicaragua both before and after the Triumph. His conclusion is that, while there is still much to be done, the condition of women has improved politically, socially, and economically. Comparatively speaking, the revolutionary process has in many ways been more beneficial to women than to men. This progress has been all the more remarkable given the extreme constraints imposed by the military and economic aggression directed against Nicaragua by the Reagan administration.

Author : Karen Kampwirth
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271075815

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Women and Guerrilla Movements by Karen Kampwirth Pdf

The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new men" who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show why a full understanding of revolutions needs to take account of gender. Karen Kampwirth writes here about the women who joined the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, about how they became guerrillas, and how that experience changed their lives. In the last chapter she compares what happened in these countries with Cuba in the 1950s, where few women participated in the guerrilla struggle. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, Kampwirth examines the political, structural, ideological, and personal factors that allowed many women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities. Her emphasis on the experiences of revolutionaries adds a new dimension to the study of revolution, which has focused mainly on explaining how states are overthrown.

Author : M. Molyneux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230286382

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Women’s Movements in International Perspective by M. Molyneux Pdf

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging reevaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this balance by analysing Latin American women's movements within liberal, authoritarian and revolutionary states. These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua and Cuba, alongside comparative discussions of socialism, women's movements and citizenship, examine the complex, and persistent, interaction of states and women's movements, and the diversity of responses engendered.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0813520258

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Sandino's Daughters Revisited by Margaret Randall Pdf

Randall interviewed these outspoken women from all walks of life: working-class Diana Espinoza, head bookkeeper of an employee-owned factory; Daisy Zamora, a vice minister of culture under the Sandinistas; and Vidaluz Meneses, daughter of a Somozan official, who ties her revolutionary ideals to her Catholicism. The voices of these women, along with nine others, lead us to recognize both the failed promises and continuing attraction of the Sandinista movement for women.

Author : Rosario Montoya
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816502417

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Gendered Scenarios of Revolution by Rosario Montoya Pdf

In 1979, toward the end of the Cold War era, Nicaragua's Sandinista movement emerged on the world stage claiming to represent a new form of socialism. Gendered Scenarios of Revolution is a historical ethnography of Sandinista state formation from the perspective of El Tule-a peasant village that was itself thrust onto a national and international stage as a "model" Sandinista community. This book follows the villagers ́ story as they joined the Sandinista movement, performed revolution before a world audience, and grappled with the lessons of this experience in the neoliberal aftermath. Employing an approach that combines political economy and cultural analysis, Montoya argues that the Sandinistas collapsed gender contradictions into class ones, and that as the Contra War exacerbated political and economic crises in the country, the Sandinistas increasingly ruled by mandate as vanguard party instead of creating the participatory democracy that they professed to work toward. In El Tule this meant that even though the Sandinistas created new roles and possibilities for women and men, over time they upheld pre-revolutionary patriarchal social structures. Yet in showing how the revolution created opportunities for Tuleños to assert their agency and advance their interests, even against the Sandinistas ́ own interests, this book offers a reinterpretation of the revolution ́s supposed failure. Examining this community’s experience in the Sandinista and post-Sandinista periods offers perspective on both processes of revolutionary transformation and their legacies in the neoliberal era. Gendered Scenarios of Revolution will engage graduate and undergraduate students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, and women’s and gender studies, and appeal to anyone interested in modern revolution and its aftermath.

Author : Dan La Botz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004291317

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What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution by Dan La Botz Pdf

This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.

Author : Gioconda Belli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, Nicaraguan
ISBN : 074755899X

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The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli Pdf

This memoir is an account of the Nicaraguan revolution, of meetings with Fidel Castro and exile in Costa Rica, and it is a tale of political and romantic awakening as Gioconda Belli learnt to fight against the shackles of society.

Author : Ilja A. Luciak
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0801867800

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After the Revolution by Ilja A. Luciak Pdf

The author shows how former guerilla women in three Central American countries made the transition from insurgents to mainstream political players in the democratization process.