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Author Grabe, Shelly, 1974- author.

Title Narrating a psychology of resistance : voices of the compañeras in Nicaragua / Shelly Grabe
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: Section One Citizen Democracy and Knowledge: Leveling the Playing Field by Creating Participatory Spaces -- 1. Problematizing the Struggle for Freedom Through Contradiction -- "Freedom should be wide enough so that every person can decide what to participate in and what to build towards or construct" / Juanita Jimenez -- 2. Resisting Exclusion with Oppositional Participation -- "I was excluded from hearing what the males in the house were talking about, particularly if they were talking about politics because that was not, you know, ladies' business" / Sofia Montenegro -- 3. Role of Education and Knowledge in the Building of Citizen Subjectivity -- "As long as you keep people in the dark, not knowing anything, of course you will be able to do what you wish with them and manipulate them. Ignorance is the best friend of abusive people's manipulation" / Yamileth Mejia -- 4. Elevating Voices by Resisting Universalism -- "If we could just reach where we could have really strong women, strong character and enough knowledge, because knowledge is important to start doing things, you know, from a women's point of view, from our cultures" / Matilde Lindo -- Section One Summary -- SECTION TWO Intersectional Ideology: Legislation and Women's Human Rights -- 5. Linking Lived Experience of Violence and Transformative Feminist Action -- "We had a feminist vision and we were a very politicized social movement ... We demanded changes in legislation ... We don't just take care of victims" / Violeta Delgado -- 6. Subjectivation in Response to Patriarchal and Neoliberal Rule -- "We have taken feminist philosophy as a way of making change in this patriarchal structure that oppresses us and keeps us sunken in poverty ... For both neoliberalism and the patriarchal system are responsible, both of them together, for continuing to oppress women, to oppress more than 50-plus 1% percent of the world's [ect.] / Sandra Ramos -- 7. Legislating from a Feminist Standpoint -- "We questioned the power that the patriarchs had, that politicians had; we claimed that politicians were the main abusers of women, that the congressmen did not legislate in the best interest of women" / Bertha Ines Cabrales -- Section Two Summary -- SECTION THREE Agriculture: Feminist Rural Organizing -- 8. Deideologizing the Material and Social Conditions of Inequity -- ̀The poor and women cross the same paths.' ... We must have programs of greater significance or scope since we women are the ones who drive the world economy / Martha Heriberta Valle -- 9. Deideologizing Land Ownership: Structures that Interrupt Male Dominance -- "We began linking the purchase of land with feminist thinking, becoming aware of our identity, of how women have been constructed, to deconstruct the model that was the obstacle to leaving the kitchen, and work in the field" / Diana Martinez -- Section Three Summary
Summary 'Narrating a Psychology of Resistance' analyzes first-hand testimony from the Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres in Nicaragua - a coordinated mobilization of women that has weathered unremitting power differentials characterized by patriarchy and capitalism - to examine the psychology of resistance in order to revolutionize societies who have suffered under brutal regimes
The Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres (Women's Autonomous Movement) in Nicaragua - birthed in part from the Sandinista Revolution of the 1980s - represents one of the largest, most diverse, and most autonomous women's movements in all of Latin America. While it's true that scholars across a wide range of disciplines have written invariably about this social movement (and have been instrumental in arguing that these women are not mere victims, but individuals who have worked hard to resist oppression and fight injustice for decades) what remains missing from this body of work is scholarship aimed at understanding, specifically, the psychology of resistance; in other words, what are the psychological mechanisms and methodologies that emerge from the margins that determine the kind of social action that revolutionizes societies? Investigating the psychosocial processes behind resistance is critical to understanding a commitment to justice and the development of subjectivity necessary for enacting the political activity required for social transformation. Psychology, in particular, as author Shelly Grabe argues, is positioned to engage in a systematic exploration of the links between social and political conditions that determine how, why, and under what circumstances resistance emerges. Narrating a Psychology of Resistance documents the first-hand accounts of the Nicaraguan women's Movimiento: a coordinated mobilization of women that has weathered unremitting power differentials characterized by patriarchy and capitalism. In this collection of testimonios, Grabe gives voice to these extraordinary women and closely examines how psychological processes that emerge in response to sociopolitical oppression can lead to gendered justice and the revolutionizing of societies at large. -- Amazon.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Feminism -- Nicaragua
Women's rights -- Nicaragua
Women -- Political activity -- Nicaragua
Women -- Nicaragua -- Social conditions
Social movements -- Nicaragua
Feminism
Politics and government
Social movements
Women -- Political activity
Women -- Social conditions
Women's rights
SUBJECT Nicaragua -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091736
Subject Nicaragua
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190649760
0190649763
Other Titles Voices of the compañeras in Nicaragua