Mothers Of Heroes And Martyrs

Author : Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867644
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs written by Lorraine Bayard de Volo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded during the Nicaraguan revolution, the Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs of Matagalpa comprises women who supported the revolution but did not carry guns. The author focuses on the group to explore 'maternal identity politics'.

Author : Suzanne Evans
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773560238
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs written by Suzanne Evans and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzanne Evans finds commonalities between the many images of war mothers - the Canadian Silver Cross mother, the ancient Jewish Maccabean mother of seven martyred sons, the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber. She compares the lore about mothers of martyrs in the Judeo-Christian, Muslim, and Sikh traditions with stories of World War I Canadian mothers who were depicted in the media as having sacrificed their sons for the sake of civilization, justice, freedom, and God. After the war these mothers were honoured with the Silver Cross medal. Evans argues that, like the mothers of past martyrs, the image of the war-supportive mother in Canada had a powerful influence over public opinion and drew supporters to the cause.

Author : Lois Ann Lorentzen
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814751458
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women and War Reader written by Lois Ann Lorentzen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women play many roles during wartime. This compelling study brings together the work of foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of ethnicity, women and the war complex, peacemaking, motherhood, and more. It leaves behind outdated arguments about militarist men and pacifist women, while still recognizing differences in men's and women's relationships to war. .

Author : Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes, Martyrs, and Mothers written by Lorraine Bayard de Volo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victoria González-Rivera
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271050586
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before the Revolution written by Victoria González-Rivera and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.

Author : John Guidry
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472023411
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalizations and Social Movements written by John Guidry and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization not only spurs the creation of social movements, but affects the way many social movements are structured and work. The essays in this volume illuminate how globalization is caught up in social movement processes and question the boundaries of social movement theory. The book builds on the modern theory of social movements that focuses upon political process and opportunity, resource mobilization and mobilization structure, and the cultural framing of grievances, utopias, ideologies, and options. Some of the essays deal with the structure of international campaigns, while others are focused upon conflicts and movements in less developed countries that have strong international components. The fourteen essays are written by both well established senior scholars and younger scholars in anthropology, political science, sociology, and history. The essays cover a range of time periods and regions of the world. This book is relevant for anyone interested in the politics and social change processes related to globalization as well as social-movement theory. Mayer Zald is Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan. Michael Kennedy is Vice Provost for International Programs, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Russian and East European Affairs, University of Michigan. John Guidry is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Augustana College.

Author : Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725288478
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary, Mother of Martyrs written by Kathleen Gallagher Elkins and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother throughout Christian history, but she is not the only ancient maternal figure whose story is connected to violent loss. This book examines several ancient representations of mothers and children in contexts of sociopolitical violence, demonstrating that notions of early Christian motherhood, as today, are contextual and produced for various political, social, and ethical reasons. In each chapter, the ancient maternal figure is juxtaposed with an example of contemporary maternal activism to show that maternal self-sacrifice can be understood as strategic, varied, politically charged, and rhetorically flexible.

Author : Héctor Perla, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316578070
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion written by Héctor Perla, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) of Nicaragua able to resist the Reagan Administration's coercive efforts to rollback their revolution? Héctor Perla challenges conventional understandings of this conflict by tracing the process through which Nicaraguans, both at home and in the diaspora, defeated US aggression in a highly unequal confrontation. He argues that beyond traditional diplomatic, military, and domestic state policies a crucial element of the FSLN's defensive strategy was the mobilization of a transnational social movement to build public opposition to Reagan's policy within the United States, thus preventing further escalation of the conflict. Using a contentious politics approach, the author reveals how the extant scholarly assumptions of international relations theory have obscured some of the most consequential dynamics of the case. This is a fascinating study illustrating how supposedly powerless actors were able to constrain the policies of the most powerful nation on earth.

Author : Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571325017
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passion and Cunning written by Conor Cruise O'Brien and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism. 'O'Brien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit. Agree with him or not, one reads him with enjoyment.' Foreign Affairs '[ Passion and Cunning] displays once again [O'Brien's] wonderful range of talents: a beautiful command of the language, gentle wit and coruscating satire, shrewd political judgment and a raking critical power. O'Brien is, moreover, a critic against all-comers, his spiky guns pointing in all directions: woe betide anyone incautious enough to presume that O'Brien is on their 'side'. . . O'Brien believes in all manner of good causes, but his own independence is finally what he cares about most.' R. W. Johnson, London Review of Books

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019998266X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Rights to Power written by Alison Brysk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can "Speaking Rights to Power" build political will to respond to human rights abuse? Through dozens of cases, this book shows how communication politics build recognition, solidarity, and social change. The book presents an innovative analysis of human rights rhetoric: strategic use of voice, framing, media, performance, and audience.