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Lorraine Bayard de Volo - Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs - 9780801867644 - V9780801867644
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Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs

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Description for Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs Paperback. Such "mobilizing identitiespropelled women into unprecedented levels of collective action, yet at the same time channeled them away from feminist priorities. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; HBTV; JFSJ1; JPA; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
How did a group of overwhelmingly poor, older women in a third-world country emerge to become a powerful force in their country's politics? Founded during the Nicaraguan revolution, the Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs of Matagalpa comprises women who supported the revolution but did not carry guns; who, in their words, gave up their loved ones to the struggle. In this book Lorraine Bayard de Volo focuses on this group to reveal what she calls "the dominant but rarely examined maternal identity politics of revolution, war, and democratization." Dividing Nicaraguan politics (1979-99) into four periods, Bayard de Volo uses ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801867644
SKU
V9780801867644
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About Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Lorraine Bayard de Volo is an assistant professor in the departments of political science and women's studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Reviews for Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs
[A]n extremely insightful and engaging book... an analysis of a rich case study that will be of interest to anyone working on social movements, identity politics, revolution, democratization, or war.
Suzanne Dovi Perspectives on Political Science Bayard de Volo's study is both an analysis of the symbolic and discursive deployment of motherhood, and a history of an organization's trajectory ... Read more

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