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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822772503321

Autore

Kampwirth Karen <1964->

Titolo

Feminism and the legacy of revolution : Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas / / Karen Kampwirth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-89680-440-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; ; no. 43

Altri autori (Persone)

KampwirthKaren <1964->

Disciplina

305.4209728

Soggetti

Women political activists - Latin America

Women revolutionaries - Latin America

Feminists - Latin America

Feminism - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Companion vol. to Women & guerrilla movements.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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