Women's activism and feminist agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua / Jennifer Leigh Disney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Disney, Jennifer Leigh, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women political activists--Mozambique.

Women political activists.

Women political activists--Nicaragua.

Social change--Mozambique.

Social change.

Social change--Nicaragua.

Feminist theory--Mozambique.

Feminist theory.

Feminist theory--Nicaragua.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua, Jennifer Leigh Disney investigates the contours of women's emancipation outside the framework of liberal democracy and a market economy. She interviews 146 women and men in the two countries to explore the comparative contribution of women's participation in subsistence and informal economies, political parties and civil society organizations. She also discusses military struggles against colonialism and imperialism in fostering feminist agency to provide a fascinating look at how each movement evolved and how

Contents:

Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1 "Women Must Occupy and Give Themselves the Place They Deserve" Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua; 2 "After Acknowledging Differences, We Must Also See What We Have in Common" Feminist Contestations and Commonalities across First World/Third World, African, and Latin American Divides; 3 "Doing a Revolution Doesn't Stop You from Being Machista" The Birth of Revolutionary Women's Organizations and the Limits of Marxism-Leninism in Mozambique and Nicaragua

4 "Women Are Not Cows-We Are Active Agents of History" Autonomy Struggles Emerge in Mozambique and Nicaragua5 "The Oppressed Woman Is Easier to Deal With" Political Participation, Legal Reforms, and Cultural Constraints in Mozambique and Nicaragua; 6 "I Can Do Anything a Man Can Do" Military Participation, Economic Production, and Women's Emancipation in Mozambique and Nicaragua; 7 "There Are No Alternatives: Is This Really Democracy?" Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua

8 "Partners in the Home, at Work, and on the Street" The Contemporary Women's Movements and Emergent Feminisms in Mozambique and NicaraguaAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.

ISBN:

9786611973292

9781281973290

1281973297

9781592138302

1592138306

OCLC:

476226140