The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War
In: Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Women as combatants in revolution -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Social identity themes -- Stereotypes and images -- Liberation theology -- Methodology -- 2 Historical overview of the Nicaraguan Revolution and FSLN women -- Reconciliation -- The military front -- AMPRONAC -- Conclusion -- 3 Women in the FSLN -- The role of female combatants in the FSLN -- Gender equality -- Hardships Sandinista women endured that men did not -- Gender identity -- The role of nationalism -- Liberation theology -- Images and perceptions of the enemy held by the FSLN -- Third generation of female militants - Contra revolutionary war -- Conclusion -- 4 The Contra war -- Background: the people of the Atlantic Coast -- Group identity and political violence -- The revolution arrives -- Conclusion -- 5 Women in the Contra revolutionary war -- Images and perceptions of the enemy during and after demobilization -- Identity: ethnicity, not ideology -- Identity: gender or child? -- Contra women and gender equality -- Hardships Contra woman endured that men did not -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- What we learned -- The women of the FSLN -- The women of the Contra war -- References -- Index