Come Hell Or High Water: Feminism And The Legacy Of Armed Conflict In Central America - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 63

In this insightful new book Destrooper examines the relationship between revolutionary politics and feminist struggles in Latin America.

List of contents

List of illustrations and tables
Abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: THE INFLUENCE OF CONFLICT AND ITS AFTERMATH ON THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
1. A social history of the women's movement in Guatemala and Nicaragua
2. Social movement spillover and organizational learning in the post-conflict women's movement
3. Is there a real women’s movement? Cooperation, fragmentation and divisions in the movement
4. Shifting paradigms: womanhood as a political strategy

PART II: COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES TO WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
5. Revisiting mainstream feminist approaches
6. Indigenous feminism and its experience-based approach to women's empowerment
7. The socio-political value of an experience-based approach. Rethinking strategies of collective action

Conclusion: New perspectives for female mobilization
Alphabetical overview of interviewees
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Tine Destrooper, Ph.D. European University Institute (1986), is currently a researcher and guest professor at the universities of Leiden and Antwerp. She specializes in issues of gender, post-conflict societies, social mobilization and policy influencing in Central America and Europe

Summary

In this insightful new book Destrooper examines the relationship between revolutionary politics and feminist struggles in Latin America.

Foreword

Title will be prominently featured at all of the academic conferences we attend

Promotion to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference, which has a growing academic audience (400 graduate students and professors in 2010)

Reviews will be sought from left leaning academic journals

Product details

• Authors: Tine Destrooper, Destrooper Tine, Tine Destrooper
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2016
• EAN: 9781608464883
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-488-3
• Weight: 433 g
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Studies in Critical Social Sci; Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, History of the Americas, Political ideologies and movements, Central America, Mexico and Central America