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Women played a role in the Nicaraguan Revolution. Those who joined the Sandinista movement in the revolutionary Nicaragua essentially fought a battle: to secure national freedom from the Somoza dictatorship and to advance gender equality. [1] There was an emergence of women as active participants and leaders.
"Feminism, Revolution, and Democratic Transitions in Nicaragua" in The Women's Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy (2nd ed). Ed. Jane S. Jaquette. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. 177–196. Chinchilla, Norma Stoltz. Revolutionary Popular Feminism in Nicaragua: Articulating Class, Gender, and National Sovereignty.
As a result of the revolution, changes in gender discourses, policies and programs promoted by the Nicaraguan women's movement, beginning with the Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women, occurred in the early 1980s and continued with an autonomous women's movement in the 1990s. The Sandinistas’ reforms in family law, their ...
Magaly Quintana Pereyra (28 May 1952 [1] – 5 May 2019) was a Nicaraguan feminist historian and activist. [2] She was director of Catholic Women for the Right to Choose, advocating for the right to therapeutic abortion following its ban in Nicaragua in 2006. [3]
It includes People of the Nicaraguan Revolution that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Women in the Nicaraguan Revolution" This category contains only the following page.
Dora María Téllez Argüello (born 1955) is a Nicaraguan historian known for her involvement in the Nicaraguan Revolution.As a young university medical student in León in the 1970s, Téllez was recruited by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
Role of women in the Nicaraguan Revolution This page was last edited on 27 July 2024, at 20:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
In 1968, the area was attacked by the Somocista National Guard: the men were killed and the women were imprisoned. [3] The National Guard wanted to obtain information about guerrilla activity, but the women refused to collaborate, as a result nineteen of these women were raped and tortured. [6] These nineteen became known as the Women of the ...