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Author Kampwirth, Karen, 1964-

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

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 279 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 43
Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 43.
Note Companion vol. to Women & guerrilla movements.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-270) and index.
Contents 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.
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Summary 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 tell.
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Subject Women political activists -- Latin America.
Women political activists.
Latin America.
Women revolutionaries -- Latin America.
Women revolutionaries.
Feminists -- Latin America.
Feminists.
Feminism -- Latin America.
Feminism.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1990-2004
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Feminists.
Feminism.
Women's movement.
Added Author Kampwirth, Karen, 1964- Women & guerrilla movements.
Other Form: Print version: Kampwirth, Karen, 1964- Feminism and the legacy of revolution. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 04014104
ISBN 9780896804401 (electronic book)
0896804402 (electronic book)
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