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The Challenge of Inclusive Identities and Solidarities: Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in the N icaraguan Women's Movement and the Legacy of S andinismo
Author(s) -
HEUMANN SILKE
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12103
Subject(s) - gender studies , human sexuality , feminism , identity (music) , sociology , power (physics) , social movement , hierarchy , movement (music) , social justice , state (computer science) , social change , political science , criminology , politics , law , aesthetics , philosophy , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
This article addresses the ways in which S andinismo has affected the N icaraguan women's movement from ‘within’, analysing how its legacy is reflected in personal discourses on gender and sexuality within the women's movement. In‐depth interviews show that the women's movement inherited from the S andinistas specific ideas about social justice and social change based on a primary identity, a corresponding hierarchy of rights and a notion of the state as the privileged site of power and social change. I argue that this legacy has hindered the development of feminism in N icaragua and especially the mobilisation around sexual and reproductive rights.