Women and Guerrilla Movements

Women and Guerilla Movements Book Description Women and Guerilla Movements This book strikingly expresses the reflection of the gender awareness that women gained within the Guerrilla movement on the struggle for freedom. "Karen Kampwirth has made a significant contribution to the literature of revolution in this book by provocatively intertwining structural, political economy and personal stories with a robust argument. The stories are fascinating and gripping, the ideas striking and powerful, the writing style extremely compelling. She explains that political and structural factors The theoretical framework based on a combination of ideas is clever, creative, and robust, as well as tested against very original and hard-to-obtain empirical data from four examples: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Chiapas and Cuba. It will be seen as a foundational work." -- John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara Revolutionary movements that have frequently emerged in Latin America over the past century aim to overthrow dictatorships, confront economic inequalities, and create what Che Guevara, the hero of the Cuban Revolution, called "the new man." encouraged. But many of the "new men" who joined these movements were not actually men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show why gender must be taken into account in order to fully understand revolutions. In this book, Karen Kampwirth writes about women who participated in revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, how they became guerrillas, and how this experience changed their lives. In the final chapter of the book, she compares what happened in these countries with what happened in 1950s Cuba, where few women participated in the guerrilla struggle. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, Kampwirth examines the political, structural, ideological, and personal factors that enabled many women to escape the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities. . Kampwlrth's emphasis on the experiences of revolutionaries adds a new dimension to revolutionary studies, which have so far focused mainly on how states are overthrown. (From the Promotional Bulletin) Number of Pages: 277Print Year: 2014Language: TurkishPublisher: Sümer Yayıncılık