Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua - Couverture rigide

Disney, Jennifer Leigh

9781592138289: Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1592138284 ISBN 13 : 9781592138289

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2008

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Revue de presse :

"Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua provides a compelling account of women's contributions to revolutionary struggle and social transformation in two nations, illuminating the enormity of the challenge posed by gender equality, the effects of revolution on women's and men's lives, and the increasing precariousness of social justice struggles in a globalizing world." --Mary Hawkesworth, Professor and Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, and Editor in Chief, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

"Disney offers a careful analysis of women's political behavior in two culturally and linguistically distinct continental environments....explor[ing] the increasingly effective role of women in the Third World. The value of this analysis is enhanced by its extensive bibliography, useful and informative footnotes, and careful interviews." --Choice, September 2009

"Disney's book confirms the importance of...providing an infrastructure on which to build women's movements....[She] points out the importance of electoral defeat for creating an environment conducive to women's autonomous organizing. Her account of the different impacts of the Sandinistas' electoral defeat and the electoral victories of the Liberation Front of Mozambique takes the discussion of representation well beyond quotas. She shows that Nicaraguan women's organizations have been more effective than those in Mozambique because they have been autonomous from the ruling political party as well as from women elected to parliament.... [This book] add[s] interesting new examples and counterexamples to studies of gender and democratization...present[ing] wonderful case study material for courses on women and politics." --Signs, Autumn 2009

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

How and under what conditions is feminist consciousness created? What forms of mobilization foster feminist agency and what factors hinder its realization? These critical questions have been the subject of intense debate among feminist scholars in philosophy, political science, sociology and interdisciplinary women's studies for three decades. In this pioneering study, Jennifer Leigh Disney contributes to this debate by tracing the mobilization of women in two revolutionary contexts, comparing the strategies and the outcomes of various organizational forms developed in Mozambique and in Nicaragua over the past 30 years.By examining two socialist revolutions in the global South, Disney investigates the contours of women's emancipation outside the framework of liberal democracy and 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 it changed in a post-revolutionary climate.

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