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Mobilisation without emancipation? Women's interests, state and revolution in Nicaragua
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The fall of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in July 1979 could not have been achieved without the mass urban insurrections which brought the capital, Managua, and other key cities under the increasing control of the revolutionary forces.Abstract:
The fall of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in July 1979 could not have been achieved without the mass urban insurrections which brought the capital, Managua, and other key cities under the increasing control of the revolutionary forces. This was the culmination of a process of growing popular opposition characterised by the incorporation of a wide cross-section of the population into political activity.read more
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Promising Approaches to Address the Needs of Poor Female Farmers: Resources, Constraints, and Interventions
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Female Consciousness and Collective Action: The Case of Barcelona, 1910-1918
TL;DR: For example, women with female consciousness demand the rights that their obligations entail as mentioned in this paper, and the collective drive to secure those rights that result from the division of labor sometimes has revolutionary consequences insofar as it politicizes the networks of everyday life.
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Power, Interests and the Outcomes of Struggles
TL;DR: The authors criticizes the ways in which ''power, ''interests'' and related notions are used in the analysis of social relations, and two broad approaches to power analysis are considered.