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Radical women in Latin America : left and right / edited by Victoria González and Karen Kampwirth

Published
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2001]
Copyright Date
©2001
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 343 pages)
Additional Creators
González-Rivera, Victoria, 1969- and Kampwirth, Karen, 1964-
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Contents
pt. 1. Radical women in Central America. Chronology of Nicaragua ; Chronology of El Salvador ; Chronology of Guatemala ; Somocista women, right wing politics, and feminism in Nicaragua, 1936-1979 / Victoria González ; Women in the armed struggles in Nicaragua: Sandinistas and Contras compared / Karen Kampwirth ; The Coalición Nacional de Mujeres: an alliance of left-wing women, right-wing women, and radical feminists in Nicaragua / María Teresa Blandón ; Right and left-wing women in post-revolutionary El Salvador: feminist autonomy and cross-political alliance building for gender equality / Patricia Hipsher ; A feminist reconstruction of parenthood within neoliberal constraints: La Asociación de Madres Demandantes in El Salvador / Kelley Ready ; Gender equality, democratization, and the revolutionary left in Central America: Guatemala in comparative context / Ilja A. Luciak -- pt. 2. Radical women in South America. Chronology of Argentina ; Chronology of Brazil ; Chronology of Chile ; Spreading right-wing patriotism, femininity, and morality: women in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1900-1940 / Sandra McGee Deutsch ; Changing the system from within? feminist participation in the Brazilian Workers' Party / Liesl Haas ; Nonpartisanship as a political strategy: women left, right, and center in Chile / Lisa Baldez ; Defending dictatorship: conservative women in Pinochet's Chile and the 1988 plebiscite / Margaret Power.
Summary
Radical Women in Latin America is a collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines-anthropology, history, and political science-on the political activism of women from both the left and the right. The stories of these radical women challenge traditional portrayals of men as violent and women as inherently peaceful. This volume forces us to confront the fact that there is no automatic sisterhood among women, even among those of the same class and ethnicity. At the same time, the essays show the similarities that can unite women across immense political divides. This book analyzes radical women's actions and motivations through four interrelated themes-maternalism, feminism, autonomy, and coalitions between left- and right-wing women-in three Central American countries (Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala) and three South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile). The editors and contributors to this volume have done extensive and recent field research in Latin America. Radical Women in Latin America challenges both stereotypical views of Latin American women as easily manipulated and portrayals of women's activism as inherently progressive. This book will make clear that women are capable of defining their own interests and their political identities, organizing autonomously, and even using violence, if they deem it necessary to pursue their goals.
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ISBN
0271023759 (electronic bk.)
9780271023755 (electronic bk.)
9780271054384 (electronic bk.)
0271054387 (electronic bk.)
0271049243
9780271049243
9780271052724
0271052724
0271021004 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780271021003 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0271021012 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9780271021010 (paper ; acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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