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Still Fighting

By: Katherine Isbester

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The story of the women's movement in Nicaragua is a fascinating tale of resistance, strategy, and faith. From its birth in 1977 under the Somoza dictatorship through the Sandinista revolution to the fall of the Chamorro government, the Nicaraguan women's movement has navigated revolutionary upheaval, profound changes in government, and rapidly shifting definitions of women's roles in society. Through it all, the movement has surged, regressed, and persevered, entering the twenty-first century a powerful and influential force, stretching from the grassroots to the national level.How did women in an economically underdeveloped Central American country, with little history of organizing, feminism, or democracy, succeed in creating networks, organizations, and campaigns that carved out a gender identity and challenged dominant ideologies (both revolutionary and conservative)? In Still Fighting, Katherine Isbester seeks to understand. She analyzes the complex and rich case of Nicaragua in order to learn more about the dynamics of social movements in general and women's organizing in particular. Social movement theory offers Isbester an analytic tool to explain the extraordinary evolution of the Nicaraguan movement. She theorizes that a sustainable movement is composed of three elements: a focused goal, a mobilization of resources, and an identity. The lack of any one of these weakens a social movement. Isbester shows how this theory is borne out by the experience of the Nicaraguan women's movement over the past thirty years. She demonstrates, for example, how the revolutionary government of the 1980s co-opted the women's movement, crippling its ability to create an autonomous identity, choose it own goals, and mobilize resources independent of the state. Hence, it lost legitimacy, membership, and influence. She traces the movement's resurgence in the 1990s, the result of its redefinition as an autonomous movement organized around an identity of care. Still Fighting combines social theory with field research, leading a new wave of scholarship on women in Latin America. Isbester interviewed more than a hundred key participants in the women's movement, in addition to members of the National Assembly, male leaders of other social movements, and women outside the movement. In Nicaragua, she was witness to much political organizing, enabling her to reveal the organic intricacy, as well as the historical path, of a social movement. Still Fighting will be an important book for a broad range of students and professionals in the areas of social movements, social change, gender, politics, and Latin America.

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Still Fighting

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The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America

Ten Country Studies of Division and Resilience

By: Katherine Anne Isbester

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The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America

Ten Country Studies of Division and Resilience

By: Katherine Anne Isbester

Inviting in tone and organization but rigorous in its scholarship, The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America focuses on the problems, successes, and multiple forms of democracy in Latin America. The opening chapters provide readers with a theoretical and conceptual lens through which to examine the ten case studies, which focus on Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dictatorships with electoral democracies, solid economic growth (leading up to the global credit crisis), and increased efforts by the state to extend the benefits of peace and prosperity to the poor, democracy—as a political system—is experiencing declining support, and support for authoritarianism is on the rise. The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America demonstrates the deep divisions between rulers and ruled in Latin America that undermine democratic processes, institutions, and norms.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442693738

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The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America

Ten Country Studies of Division and Resilience

By: Katherine Anne Isbester

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Ten Country Studies of Division and Resilience

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Street-Level Democracy: Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

By: Jonathan Barker

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Street-Level Democracy: Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

By: Jonathan Barker

Using colourful and detailed case material, Street-Level Democracy introduces a new method of researching everyday politics. It is a wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change, but live far from the centres of power. From Britain and small-town USA to Nigeria, India, and Nicaragua, citizens everywhere grapple with the politics of everyday life.

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Between the Lines

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1926662407

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Katherine Anne Porter

Conversations

By: Katherine Anne Porter

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Conversations

By: Katherine Anne Porter

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878052666

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Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

By: Katherine Anne Porter,Ruth M. Alvarez,Thomas Francis Walsh

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Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

By: Katherine Anne Porter,Ruth M. Alvarez,Thomas Francis Walsh

This volume brings together 29 pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appear in her collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Includes both fiction and essays.

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University of Texas Press

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0292765444

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Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Letters 1697–1729

Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three

By: Paula Loscocco

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Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Letters 1697–1729

Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three

By: Paula Loscocco

Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who became widely known for her innovative use of Donnean poetics to express passionate female friendship, her occasional verses on private friends and public figures, and her moral and political acuity. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. Fortunately recent research has clarified our understanding of who Philips was and how she conducted her literary career.

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Routledge

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KATHERINE MANSFIELD - The Woman Behind The Books: The Life of Katherine Mansfield (Including Her Letters, Journals, Essays & Articles)

By: Katherine Mansfield,John Middleton Murry

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KATHERINE MANSFIELD - The Woman Behind The Books: The Life of Katherine Mansfield (Including Her Letters, Journals, Essays & Articles)

By: Katherine Mansfield,John Middleton Murry

This carefully crafted ebook: "KATHERINE MANSFIELD - The Woman Behind The Books: The Life of Katherine Mansfield (Including Her Letters, Journals, Essays & Articles)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is said that Woolf was jealous of Mansfield's story-telling skills, and probably the only person of whom the former was in jealous awe of. So who was Katherine Mansfield? Presented here is a fine collection of Mansfield's non-fictional works, the ones that got saved through her friend's and husband's (J. M. Murry's) efforts, to give an insight into the mind of the renowned modernist short stories writer. A must read! TABLE OF CONTENTS Biography The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Ruth E. Mantz & J. Middleton Murry Letters and Journal The Letters of Katherine Mansfield Vol. 1 The Letters of Katherine Mansfield Vol. 2 Journal of Katherine Mansfield Essays and Book Reviews Novels and Novelists Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) was a famous editor and husband of Katherine Mansfield. He is responsible for collecting and editing all of Mansfield's manuscripts, in spite of the tumultuous relationship between the two, during and after Mansfield's lifetime.

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Street-Level Democracy: Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

Street-Level Democracy: Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter

Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Letters 1697–1729

Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Letters 1697–1729

KATHERINE MANSFIELD - The Woman Behind The Books: The Life of Katherine Mansfield (Including Her Letters, Journals, Essays & Articles)

KATHERINE MANSFIELD - The Woman Behind The Books: The Life of Katherine Mansfield (Including Her Letters, Journals, Essays & Articles)

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