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Organizing women for combat: The experience of the FARC in the Colombian war.
- Source :
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Journal of Agrarian Change . Oct2017, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p770-778. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The FARC, which used to be Colombia's main guerrilla force and is now in the midst of a peace process, was to a great extent a feminized group. This paper discusses why it recruited so many women, and why it recruited them as combatants. We suggest that only when the FARC adopted a highly hierarchical, self-contained, and militaristic organizational blueprint did it get involved in the massive recruitment of women as combatants. We discuss the way in which organizational mechanisms and ideology interacted to produce such an outcome, and how this interaction marked both the organization and the trajectories of the women who joined it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *WOMEN in war
*WOMEN in combat
*CIVIL war
*IDEOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14710358
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Agrarian Change
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125244482
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12238