Women and Guerrilla Movements : Nicaragua, el Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba

by Kampwirth, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780271022512
• ISBN10: 0271022515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." but in fact, many of the "new men" who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show why a full understanding of revolutions needs to take account of gender. Karen Kampwirth writes here about the women who joined the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, about how they became guerrillas, and how that experience of revolutionaries adds a new dimension to the study7 of revolution, which has focused mainly on explaining how states are overthrown.

Author Biography

Valerie A. Kivelson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan Robert H. Greene is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Michigan

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. viii
Chronology	p. ix
Introduction: Orthodox Russia	p. 1
Destabilizing Dichotomies
Old and New, High and Low: Straw Horsemen of Russian Orthodoxy	p. 23
Two Cultures, One Throne Room: Secular Courtiers and Orthodox Culture in the Golden Hall of the Moscow Kremlin	p. 33
Letting the People into Church: Reflections on Orthodoxy and Community in Late Imperial Russia	p. 59
Imagining the Sacred
From Corpse to Cult in Early Modern Russia	p. 81
Protectors of Women and the Lower Orders: Constructing Sainthood in Modern Russia	p. 105
Encountering the Sacred
Till the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Russian Historical Experience Before 1500	p. 127
Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and Practice	p. 159
Living Orthodoxy
Quotidian Orthodoxy: Domestic Life in Early Modern Russia	p. 179
God of Our Mothers: Reflections on Lay Female Spirituality in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia	p. 193
Paradoxes of Piety: The Nizhegorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1807-1935	p. 211
Orthodoxy as Ascription (and Beyond): Religious Identity on the Edges of the Orthodox Community, 1740-1917	p. 239
Epilogue: A View from the West	p. 253
Annotated Bibliography	p. 277
List of Contributors	p. 283
Index	p. 285
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