1. LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship and Social Movements.
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Lara, Ana‐Maurine
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DICTATORSHIP ,SOCIAL movements ,SOLIDARITY ,PRACTICAL politics ,FEMINISM ,POLITICAL participation ,STATE power ,SOCIAL history ,ACTIVISM - Abstract
She also contextualizes LGBTQ participation by detailing how the Sandinista revolution rejected "sexual disorder" (47) as a product of I Somocismo i (support for the Somoza era/dictatorship). I Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship and Social Movements i is a new addition to LGBTQ Movement studies as an important ethnographic and historical text that not only documents the Nicaraguan LGBTQ movement, but also the social and political history of Nicaragua as mediated by the experiences and participation of LGBTQ individuals and collectives. Kampwirth provides us with an overview of how Sandinista policies shaped LGBTQ sociality, political and economic participation and movement through public space. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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