Narrating a psychology of resistance : voices of the compañeras in Nicaragua / Shelly Grabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grabe, Shelly, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Nicaragua.

Feminism.

Women's rights--Nicaragua.

Women's rights.

Women--Political activity--Nicaragua.

Women.

Women--Nicaragua--Social conditions.

Social movements.

Women--Political activity.

Nicaragua.

Social conditions.

Social movements--Nicaragua.

Nicaragua--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 260 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres (Women's Autonomous Movement) in Nicaragua-birthed in part from the Sandinista Revolution of the 1980s- represents one of the largest, most diverse, and most autonomous women's movements in all of Latin America. While it's true that scholars across a wide range of disciplines have written invaluably about this social movement (and have been instrumental in arguing that these women are not mere victims, but individuals who have worked hard to resist oppression and fight injustice for decades) what remains missing from this body of work is scholarship aimed at understanding, specifically, the psychology of resistance; in other words, what are the psychological mechanisms and methodologies that emerge from the margins that determine the kind of social action that revolutionizes societies? Narrating a Psychology of Resistance documents the first-hand accounts of the Nicaraguan women's Movimiento: a coordinated mobilization of women that has weathered unremitting power differentials characterized by patriarchy and capitalism. In this collection of testimonios, Grabe gives voice to these extraordinary women and closely examines how psychological processes that emerge in response to sociopolitical oppression can lead to gendered justice and the revolutionizing of societies at large. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section 1 Citizen Democracy and Knowledge: Leveling the Playing Field by Creating Participatory Spaces

1 Problematizing the Struggle for Freedom Through Contradiction 25

2 Resisting Exclusion with Oppositional Participation 45

3 The Role of Education and Knowledge in the Building of Citizen Subjectivity 69

4 Elevating Voices by Resisting Universalism 89

Section 1 Summary 110

Section 2 Intersectional Ideology: Legislation and Women's Human Rights

5 Linking Lived Experience of Violence and Transformative Feminist Action 119

6 Subjectivation in Response to Patriarchal and Neoliberal Rule 141

7 Legislating from a Feminist Standpoint 161

Section 2 Summary 182

Section 3 Agriculture: Feminist Rural Organizing

8 Deideologizing the Material and Social Conditions of Inequity 191

9 Deideologizing Land Ownership: Structures that Interrupt Male Dominance 211

Section 3 Summary 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190614256

0190614250

OCLC:

952964456