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Radical Women in Latin America is a collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines—anthropology, history, and political science—on the political activism of women from both the left and the right. The stories of these radical women challenge traditional portrayals of men as violent and women as inherently peaceful. This volume forces us to confront the fact that there is no automatic sisterhood among women, even among those of the same class and ethnicity. At the same time, the essays show the similarities that can unite women across immense political divides.This book analyzes radical women’s actions and motivations through four interrelated themes—maternalism, feminism, autonomy, and coalitions between left- and right-wing women—in three Central American countries (Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala) and three South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile). The editors and contributors to this volume have done extensive and recent field research in Latin America.Radical Women in Latin America challenges both stereotypical views of Latin American women as easily manipulated and portrayals of women’s activism as inherently progressive. This book will make clear that women are capable of defining their own interests and their political identities, organizing autonomously, and even using violence, if they deem it necessary to pursue their goals.
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Women social reformers. --- Women political activists. --- Globalization. --- Réformatrices sociales --- Femmes activistes --- Mondialisation --- Activisme féminin --- Féminisme et théorie féministe
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Women teachers --- Women political activists --- Enseignantes --- Femmes activistes --- Hassan, Ruqia --- IS (Organization) --- Raqqah (Syria) --- Syria --- Raqqa (Syrie) --- Syrie --- History --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire
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Version remaniée d'une thèse, cette étude met en lumière le destin de seize femmes, huit intellectuelles espagnoles et huit étrangères, qui se sont impliquées dans la guerre d'Espagne afin de défendre le gouvernement républicain. L'auteure retrace le parcours de ces femmes de lettres, les origines de leur engagement, leur mobilisation antifasciste et leur combat pour la défense de la culture. ©Electre 2016
Women intellectuals --- Women intellectuals --- Women political activists --- Intellectuelles --- Intellectuelles --- Femmes activistes --- History --- History --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Spain --- Spain --- Espagne --- Espagne --- History --- Intellectual life --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle
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Women suicide bombers --- Women political activists --- Political violence --- Femmes kamikazes (Attentats-suicides) --- Femmes activistes --- Violence politique --- Women --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Women suicide bombers - Arab countries --- Women political activists - Arab countries --- Political violence - Arab countries --- Women - Arab countries - Social conditions
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Women in politics --- Women political activists --- Feminism --- Women --- Political activity --- Femmes activistes --- Féminisme --- Femmes --- Activité politique --- Latin America --- Women in politics - Latin America. --- Women political activists - Latin America. --- Feminism - Latin America.
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Les Écossaises jouèrent un rôle essentiel dans la construction de leur nation, rôle que l'historiographie nationale a le plus souvent minimisé ou tout simplement occulté. En mobilisant deux champs historiographiques, l'histoire de l'Écosse d'une part et celle des femmes d’autre part, les auteurs du présent ouvrage ont comme ambition de participer à l'écriture d'un passé écossais au féminin et, ce faisant, de réhabiliter ces oubliées de l'histoire.Le premier chapitre de cet ouvrage aborde la question de l’exclusion des femmes du discours sur le nationalisme en étudiant tout d’abord les thèses de la pensée politique écossaise en matière d’exclusion des femmes de la sphère politique. Le XVIe siècle, particulièrement prolixe sur la question, en raison de la succession au trône d’Écosse d’une femme en la personne de Marie Stuart, s’est imposé comme le point de départ pour cette enquête sur la longue durée. Le second chapitre de ce livre porte sur cette période cruciale où les Écossaises luttèrent pour être reconnues comme membres à part entière de la communauté afin de pouvoir influer sur son destin en exprimant leurs opinions dans les urnes. Enfin, le troisième chapitre vient mettre en scène le moment historique où la création d’un nouveau Parlement écossais fut l’occasion de déclarer collectivement que la démocratie à l’écossaise ne pouvait être sans les femmes.Ce livre ne s’adresse pas seulement aux spécialistes d’histoire écossaise mais à tous les lecteurs intéressés par les études sur le genre et les thématiques de la nation et de la construction identitaire
Women --- Women political activists --- Nationalism --- Femmes --- Femmes activistes --- Nationalisme --- Political activity --- History --- Activité politique --- Histoire --- Scotland --- Ecosse --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Social conditions --- Women - Political activity - Scotland - History --- Women - Scotland - Social conditions
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Why do so many women organize against militarism and war? And why, very often, do they choose to do so in women-only groups? This original study, the product of 80,000 miles of travel by the author over a two-year period, examines women?s activism against wars as far apart as Sierra Leone, Colombia and India. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Israel refusing enmity, and co-operating for peace. It describes trans-national networks of women opposing US and Western European militarism and the so-called?war on terror?
Women political activists. --- Women --- Feminism. --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Political activists --- Social conditions --- Emancipation --- Political activism --- Peace movements. --- Mouvements pacifistes --- Femmes activistes
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