Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979
5/5
()
About this ebook
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 decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.
Victoria González-Rivera
Victoria González is earning her Ph.D. in Latin American History from Indiana University.
Related to Before the Revolution
Related ebooks
Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRadical Women in Latin America: Left and Right Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTroubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Para-State: An Ethnography of Colombia's Death Squads Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Constituting Central American–Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPaisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBarrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Zapata Lives!: Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriting/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFree City!: The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContradiction and Conflict: The Popular Church in Nicaragua Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNicaragua and the Politics of Utopia: Development and Culture in the Modern State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRace on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRe-Visioning Terrorism: A Humanistic Perspective Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLatina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unfinished Revolution: Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Latin America History For You
Mexicanos, Third Edition: A History of Mexicans in the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDiary Christopher Columbus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEl Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A new Compact History of Mexico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnna in the Tropics (TCG Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Day of the Dead Drawing Book: Learn to Draw Beautifully Festive Mexican Skeleton Art Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCosta Rica: The Complete Guide: Ecotourism in Costa Rica Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLokono-Arawaks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Short History of Mexico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChicano Bakes: Recipes for Mexican Pan Dulce, Tamales, and My Favorite Desserts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Conquest of New Spain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMayan Civilization: A History From Beginning to End Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTurning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Latin Table: Easy, Flavorful Recipes from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChe Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related categories
Reviews for Before the Revolution
1 rating0 reviews