The Guatemalan military project [[electronic resource] ] : a violence called democracy / / Jennifer Schirmer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781621803321
• Autore: Schirmer Jennifer G
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998
• ISBN: 1-283-21106-8; 9786613211064; 0-8122-0059-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Collana: Pennsylvania studies in human rights
• Disciplina: 972.8105/2
• Soggetti: Political persecution - Guatemala - History - 20th century; Indians of Central America - Guatemala - Government relations; Civil-military relations - Guatemala - History - 20th century; Guatemala Politics and government 1945-1985; Guatemala Politics and government 1985-; Guatemala Armed Forces Political activity History 20th century; Guatemala Military policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps and Chart -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Brief History of the Guatemalan Military's Rise to Power -- Chapter 2. Anatomy of the Counterinsurgency I -- Chapter 3. Anatomy of the Counterinsurgency II -- Chapter 4. Indian Soldiers and Civil Patrols of Self-Defense -- Chapter 5 Civil Affairs -- Chapter 6. A Military View of Law and Security -- Chapter 7. Army Intelligence -- Chapter 8. The Regime of Vinicio Cerezo -- Chapter 9. Contradictions of the Politico-Military Project -- Chapter 10. The Thesis of National Stability and Opponents of the State -- Chapter 11. Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Interview List -- Appendix 2. Documents and Interview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996. The commission, sponsored by the UN, estimates the conflict ; resulted in 200,000 deaths and disappearances. The commission holds the Guatemalan military responsible for 93 percent of the deaths.In The Guatemalan Military Project, Jennifer Schirmer documents the military's role in human rights violations through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and unique in their first-hand descriptions of the campaign against Guatemala's citizens. High-ranking officers explain in their own words their thoughts and feelings regarding violence, political opposition, national security doctrine, democracy, human rights, and law. Additional interviews with congressional deputies, Guatemalan lawyers, journalists, social scientists, and a former president give a full and balanced account of the Guatemalan power structure and ruling system.With expert analysis of these interviews in the context of cultural, legal, and human rights considerations, The Guatemalan Military Project provides a successful evaluation of the possibilities and processes of conversion from war to peace in Latin America and around the world.

Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding / / Dorothy Ko

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784617503321
• Autore: Ko Dorothy <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-282-36043-4; 9786612360435; 0-520-94140-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 391.4/13/0951
• Soggetti: Footbinding - China; Foot - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--1st printed p.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-320) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONVENTIONS -- DYNASTIES AND PERIODS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. GIGANTIC HISTORIES OF THE ; NATION IN THE GLOBE -- 2. THE BODY INSIDE OUT -- 3. THE BOUND FOOT AS ANTIQUE -- 4. FROM ANCIENT TEXTS TO CURRENT CUSTOMS -- 5. THE EROTICS OF PLACE -- 6. CINDERELLA'S DREAMS -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history. Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women-those who could afford it-bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism-as a way to live as the poets imagined-ended up being an exercise in excess and folly.