women's rights and right-wing politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- González-Rivera, Victoria
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- LAT 62 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenkiesrecht, politieke partijen, dictatuur, seksualiteit, Nicaragua, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- As early as 1837 some Nicaraguan women expressed 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 emerged among urban, middle-class women and lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged the participation of women in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas), whereas their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity.