The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War

ISBN-13: 9780367731977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 118 str.

Martín Meráz García; Martha L. Cottam; Bruno M. Baltodano

Opis

The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War is a study of the women who fought in the Nicaraguan Revolution and those who fought in the Contra counter-revolution on the Atlantic Coast.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Women as Combatants in Revolution

Chapter 2: Historical Overview of the Nicaraguan Revolution and the FSLN Women 

Chapter 3: Women in the FSLN

Chapter 4: The Contra War

Chapter 5: Women in the Contra Revolutionary War

Chapter 6: Conclusion

O autorze

Martín Meráz García is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at Eastern Washington University, USA. His areas of specialization include international relations, political psychology, and criminal justice; he currently teaches in the area of Chicanx Studies. Current publications include Ordinary Individuals Who Become Narcotraffickers: A Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approach to Drug Traffickers (2011) and the article ‘"Nacroballads":The Psychology and Recruitment Process of the "Narco"’ (2006). 　

Martha L. Cottam is Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University, USA. She specializes in political psychology and international politics. Her publications include Confronting al Qaeda: The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy in al Anbar (2016), Nationalism and Politics: The Political Behavior of Nation States (2000), and Images and Interventions: U.S. Policies in Latin America (1994).

Bruno M. Baltodano is Professor of Political Science at Florida SouthWestern State College, USA. His primary research interests are insurgencies and political violence. He has been a contributing writer on books on the Sunni Awakening in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and civil police in Nicaragua and journal articles on the Sandinista Revolution.