Sandino's daughters : testimonies of Nicaraguan women in struggle
by Margaret Randall, Lynda Yanz
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First published in 1981 in the wake of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) revolution in Nicaragua, Sandino's Daughters can now be seen not as a triumph of revolutionary ideals, but as a triumph of the spirit. Through a series of interviews with participants at all levels in the resistance, Margaret Randall recounts the lives of ordinary women who became pillars of strength and perseverance during their decades-long involvement in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza show more dictatorship. Believing firmly that women's liberation was inextricably linked with national liberation, many of these women were in the vanguard of the movement inspired by Augusto Sandino. At the peak of revolutionary activity, women from all classes and backgrounds comprised 30 percent of the Sandinista army. For many of these women, politics became one with the personal. Hindsight perhaps offers the greatest irony of the women's alliance with the FSLN in the fact that it was a woman, Violeta Chamorro, who challenged and defeated the Sandinistas in the free elections of 1990. Though lured by the revolutionary quixotism of a promise that lasted slightly more than a decade, the women of Sandino's Daughters will stand as a monument to all those who yearn to be free. show lessTags
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Margaret Randall is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose, including Hayde Santamara, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression and Che on My Mind, both also published by Duke University Press.
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- Canonical title
- Sandino's daughters : testimonies of Nicaraguan women in struggle
- Original publication date
- 1981
- Important places
- Central America; Nicaragua
- Important events
- Nicaraguan Revolution
- Disambiguation notice
- Please do not combine Sandino's daughters : testimonies of Nicaraguan women in struggle with Sandino's daughters revisited : feminism in Nicaragua. They are different works with entirely different content.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 305.4 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women
- LCC
- HX546 .R36 — Social sciences Socialism. Communism. Anarchism Socialism. Communism. Anarchism Communism/socialism in relation to special
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
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- Paper
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- 5
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