The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba - Softcover

Shayne, Julie D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813534844 ISBN 13: 9780813534848

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

What do women do for revolutions? And what do revolutions do for women? Julie Shayne explores the roles of women in revolutionary struggles and the relationship of these movements to the emergence of feminism. Focusing upon the three very different cases of El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba, Shayne documents the roles of women in armed and unarmed political activities. She argues that women contribute to and participate in revolutionary movements in ways quite distinct from men. Despite the fact that their political contributions tend to be seen as less important than those of their male comrades, the roles that women play are actually quite significant to the expansion of revolutionary movements. Shayne also explains how, given the convergence of political and ideological factors, feminism is often born in the wake of revolutionary movements. As a result, revolutionary feminism is a struggle that addresses larger structures of political and economic inequalities. Based on extensive in-depth interviews with activists in all three countries, The Revolution Question offers new insight into the complex gender relations underlying revolutionary social movements and enables us to re-assess both the ways that women affect political struggle and the ways in which political struggle affects women.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Julie D. Shayne is a Senior Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell and Affiliate Associate Professor, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies & Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Washington-Seattle.

Julie Shayne is an assistant professor in the Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies at Emory University.

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• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813534844
• ISBN 13: 9780813534848
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
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