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After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala

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“Gender equality and meaningful democratization are inextricably linked,” writes Ilja Luciak. “The democratization of Central The usa requires the full incorporation of women as voters, candidates, and place of business holders.” In After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, Luciak shows how former guerrilla women in three Central American countries made the transition from insurgents to mainstream political players in the democratization process.

Examining the role of women in the more than a few stages of revolutionary and national politics, Luciak begins with women as participants and leaders in guerrilla movements. Women contributed greatly to the revolutionary struggle in all three countries, but thereafter many similarities ended. In Guatemala, ideological disputes reduced women’s political effectiveness at both the intra-party and national levels. In Nicaragua, even supposing women’s rights became a secondary issue for the revolutionary party, women were nonetheless ready to put the problem at the national agenda. In El Salvador, women took leading roles in the revolutionary party and were ready to incorporate women’s rights into a broad reform agenda. Luciak cautions that whilst active measures to advance the political role of women have strengthened formal gender equality, only the joint efforts of both sexes can result in a successful transformation of society according to democratic governance and substantive gender equality.

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