2014
Gender, Sexuality, and Politics: Rethinking the Relationship Between Feminism and Sandinismo in Nicaragua
Publication
Publication
Social Politics , Volume 21 - Issue 2 p. 290- 314
Abstract
This paper revisits the historical relationship between Sandinismo and Feminism in
Nicaragua, to explain the increasing antagonism between them. Drawing on the
personal accounts of women’s rights, sexual rights, and reproductive rights activists
who participated in the Sandinista Revolution and movement, I show that the
current conflict—far from being a radical break with the past—can be traced
to antagonisms that have long existed within the Sandinista movement. The
Sandinista leadership actively mobilized an anti-feminist discourse that marginalized
sexual and reproductive rights from the revolutionary struggle. By constructing
feminism as antagonistic to the revolution and forcing a split in loyalties, this discourse
produced complex processes of (self)disciplining and (self)silencing. The
article seeks to highlight the complexity of these processes and the internal dilemmas
they produced. It questions not only the primacy of the economic or material
sphere over issues of gender and sexuality, but also the very division of these into
different spheres of experience and politics.
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doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxu004, hdl.handle.net/1765/50900 | |
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Social Politics | |
Organisation | International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) |
Heumann, S. (2014). Gender, Sexuality, and Politics: Rethinking the Relationship Between Feminism and Sandinismo in Nicaragua. Social Politics (Vol. 21, pp. 290–314). doi:10.1093/sp/jxu004 |