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15%OFFVictoria González-Rivera - Before the Revolution: Women´s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 - 9780271048703 - V9780271048703
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Before the Revolution: Women´s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979

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Description for Before the Revolution: Women´s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1; JPA; JPHX; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.

Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271048703
SKU
V9780271048703
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About Victoria González-Rivera
Victoria González-Rivera is Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University. She is the co-editor, with Karen Kampwirth, of Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right (Penn State, 2001).

Reviews for Before the Revolution: Women´s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979
“This book is a pioneering study of the development of a vibrant feminist movement in Nicaragua during the early twentieth century, as well as of the role of a later generation of women who gave conditional support to the Somoza regime in exchange for suffrage and increased political, educational, and economic opportunities. It also offers an original analysis of sexual ... Read more

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