Come Hell or High Water

Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-24896-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America, Tine Destrooper analyzes the political projects of feminist activists in light of their experience as former revolutionaries. She compares the Guatemalan and Nicaraguan experience to underline the importance of ethnicity for women’s activism during and after the civil conflict.
The first part of the book traces the influence of armed conflict on contemporary women’s activism, by combining an analysis of women’s personal histories with an analysis of structural and contextual factors. This critical analysis forms the basis of the second part of the book, which discusses several alternative forms of women’s activism rooted in indigenous practices
The book thereby combines a micro- and macro-level analysis to present a sound understanding of post-conflict women’s activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Destrooper, Tine

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations and tables
Abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: THE INFLUENCE OF CONFLICT AND ITS AFTERMATH ON THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
1. A social history of the women's movement in Guatemala and Nicaragua
2. Social movement spillover and organizational learning in the post-conflict women's movement
3. Is there a real women’s movement? Cooperation, fragmentation and divisions in the movement
4. Shifting paradigms: womanhood as a political strategy

PART II: COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES TO WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
5. Revisiting mainstream feminist approaches
6. Indigenous feminism and its experience-based approach to women's empowerment
7. The socio-political value of an experience-based approach. Rethinking strategies of collective action

Conclusion: New perspectives for female mobilization
Alphabetical overview of interviewees
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tine Destrooper, Ph.D. European University Institute (1986), is currently a researcher and guest professor at the universities of Leiden and Antwerp. She specializes in issues of gender, post-conflict societies, social mobilization and policy influencing in Central America and Europe.