Before the Revolution – Women′s Rights and Right–Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 18…

Before the RevolutionWomen's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 18211979\nAuthor(s): Victoria Gonzlez-Rivera\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271048703, 978-0271048703\nSynopsis\nThose who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the womens 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 Gonzlez-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 mov.