Feminists Question Revolution
2006; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 35; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/009430610603500206
ISSN1939-8638
Autores Tópico(s)Politics and Society in Latin America
Resumothese books, we have two scholars examining the relationship between feminism and revolution through cases in Latin America. In Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution, Karen Kampwirth compares Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Chiapas-and in the process makes important contributions to both theory and our understandings of the cases themselves. In this exceptionally well-written book, Kampwirth asks why, in all three cases, many women separated from their respective revolutionary movements in the postwar era to create autonomous feminist organizations. Kampwirth's fieldwork and analysis is the most extensive in the Nicaraguan case, and the two chapters devoted to it respond to several key questions. For example, what accounts for women's organizations' success or failure in implementing feminist reforms? In comparing two Sandinista women's organizations' contributions to the contra war, she finds that the women's branch of the Rural
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