Women & Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba

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The revolutionary movements that emerged ceaselessly in Latin The usa during the last century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara referred to as the “new man.” But in truth, among the “new men” who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show why a full understanding of revolutions needs to take account of gender.

Karen Kampwirth writes here about the women who joined the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, about how they became guerrillas, and how that experience changed their lives. Within the last chapter she compares what happened in these countries with Cuba Within the 1950s, where few women participated Within the guerrilla struggle.
Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, Kampwirth examines the political, structural, ideological, and personal factors that allowed many women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to take part in guerrilla activities. Her emphasis at the experiences of revolutionaries adds a new dimension to the study of revolution, which has focused principally on explaining how states are overthrown.

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