Women and ETA : the gender politics of radical Basque nationalism / Carrie Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Carrie, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ETA (Organization).

Women--Political activity--Spain--País Vasco--History.

Women.

ETA (Organization)--History.

History.

Women--Political activity.

País Vasco (Spain)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

País Vasco (Spain).

País Vasco (Spain)--Politics and government--20th century.

Nationalism--Spain--País Vasco--History.

Nationalism.

Spain--País Vasco.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Production:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Summary:

At a time when conflicts throughout the world are highlighting women's roles as armed activists and combatants, Women and ETA offers the first book-length study of women's participation in Spain's oldest armed movement. Women and ETA draws on a unique body of oral history interviews, archival material and published sources, showing how women's participation in the radical Basque nationalist movement has changed from the founding of ETA in 1959 to the present. The book analyses several aspects of women's nationalist activism and experience: collaboration and direct participation in ETA, cultural movements, motherhood, prison and feminism. By focusing on gender politics, Women and ETA offers new perspectives on the history of ETA, including recruitment, the militarisation of radical Basque nationalism, and the role of the media in shaping popular understandings of 'terrorism'.

The book is both historical and interdisciplinary, engaging with contemporary debates in Spanish and Basque history, oral history, feminist theory and gender studies. By comparing the case of women in ETA with those of women in other nationalist movements and armed organisations in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, it makes a major new contribution to the study of women and political violence. Finally, through its analysis of memory, gender and violence, Women and ETA also contributes to contemporary debates about memory in Spain.

Contents:

Introduction: gender, nationalism and memory 1

1 Growing up nationalist 19

2 Gendering the roots of radical nationalism 39

3 Nationalism goes public 62

4 Constructing the male warrior and the homefront heroine 84

5 From the domestic front to armed struggle 105

6 The final front: arrest and prison 125

7 Nationalism and feminism 148

8 Women and the Basque conflict in the new millennium 165

Appendix 1 Interviews 187

Appendix 2 Women in ETA 188.

ISBN:

9780719075452

0719075459

OCLC:

144694391