ISBN:
9789004248960
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (318 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Series Statement:
Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser. v.63
Parallel Title:
Print version Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America
DDC:
305.42097281
Keywords:
Feminism ; Guatemala ; History
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Feminism ; Nicaragua ; History
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Women and the military ; Guatemala ; History
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Women and war ; Guatemala ; History
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Women and war ; Nicaragua ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In 〈i〉Come Hell or High water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America〈/i〉, Tine Destrooper explores the motivations, strategies and priorities of women's activists in Guatemala and Nicaragua. She explains how these priorities were shaped by the legacy of armed conflict and the presence of international aid agencies
Description / Table of Contents:
Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; Armed Conflict, Gender Relations and Women's Mobilization; The Cases; Nicaragua; Guatemala; Comparing Both Cases; Core Concepts; Gender, Gender Relations, Gender Norms; The Women's Movement; Methodological and Theoretical Framework; Interviews and Participatory Observation; Document Analysis; Individual and Organizational Learning Theory; Outline
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I: The Influence of Conflict and its Aftermath on the Women's Movement1 A Social History of the Women's Movement in Guatemala and Nicaragua; Nicaragua; Modalities of Women's Mobilization; Factors Explaining this Type of Mobilization; Guatemala; Modalities of Women's Participation; Factors Explaining This Type of Mobilization; Comparing Women's Mobilization before and during the Conflict; Concluding Remarks; 2 Social Movement Spillover and Organizational Learning in the Post-Conflict Women's Movement; The Women's Movement, a Spillover from the Revolutionary Movement?
Description / Table of Contents:
From Revolutionary Activists to Post-Conflict Women's ActivistsIndividual and Organizational Learning; Glocalization or the Impact of International Actors; Organizational Learning through Interactions with International Organizations; Relations with Government and the Political Establishment; Nicaragua: Reacting to a Polarized Political Landscape; Guatemala: Women's Engagement in the Peace Process; Concluding Remarks; 3 Is There a Real Women's Movement? Cooperation, Fragmentation and Divisions in the Movement; Fragmentation: Diversification or Duplication?
Description / Table of Contents:
Effects of Fragmentation and Divisions within the MovementPolitics of Alliance; Causes of Fragmentation; Autonomy-Seeking: Sensible Calculation or a Divisive Strategy?; The Influence of Political Ideology and Religion; Feminism: A Basis for Progressive Action or Deepening Divides?; Concluding Remarks: Women's Organizations, a Social Non-Movement?; 4 Shifting Paradigms: Womanhood as a Political Strategy; Tracing the Rights-Based Approach; The Origins of a Rights-Based Approach; The Materialization of a Rights-Based Approach; Economic Assistance, Economic Rights and Economic Development
Description / Table of Contents:
Health, a New Feminist Mobilizing Theme?Benefits and Shortcomings of a Rights-Based Approach; Complementary Approaches: Awareness-Raising; Politicizing the Struggle, Politicizing Women's Lives; Implications of a Public Focus on Women's Lives; A New Type of Feminism?; Concluding Remarks; Part II: Complementary Approaches to Women's Empowerment; 5 Revisiting Mainstream Feminist Approaches: A New Framework for Feminist Activism; Linking the Public-Private Binary to Feminist Action; Defining the Public and the Private Realm; 'Public' and 'Private' Approaches to Empowerment?
Description / Table of Contents:
Rationalistic and Experience-Based Approaches in the Work of Local Feminists
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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