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Struggling Against the ‘Worst‐Case Scenario’? Strategic Conflicts and Realignments of the Feminist Movement in the Context of the 2006 N icaraguan Elections
Author(s) -
LACOMBE DELPHINE
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.12173
Subject(s) - referent , context (archaeology) , relevance (law) , movement (music) , power (physics) , feminist movement , front (military) , gender studies , liberation movement , political science , sociology , political economy , politics , feminism , law , history , aesthetics , geography , art , philosophy , linguistics , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , meteorology
This article analyses the debates that took place within the N icaraguan feminist movement during 2006. In the months before the election of D aniel O rtega, a new feminist organisation, the A utonomous W omen's M ovement ( MAM ), was created. Its members decided to ally themselves with the S andinista R enewal M ovement ( MRS ), which shared the priority of avoiding the return to power of the S andinista N ational L iberation F ront ( FSLN ), because they considered it to be the ‘worst‐case scenario’. This article explains these processes. It studies their consequences for other feminist groupings and the relevance of the revolutionary referent for the strategic divergences within the movement.