Money determines the way we live our lives. In a patriarchial society women experience money as one more element of control: often abusive, sometimes paralyzing. In this book, Randall interviews women from a wide range of economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds to reveal the role money plays in their lives.
Money determines the way we live our lives. In a patriarchial society women experience money as one more element of control: often abusive, sometimes ...
Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others. In Sandino's Daughters Revisited, they speak of their lives during and since the Sandinista administration, the ways in which the revolution made them strong--and also held them back. Ironically, the 1990 defeat of the Sandinistas at the ballot box...
Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the live...
"A collection of varied and amazing lives, all bent on shaping history. Together, these experienced, undeterred Nicaraguan women offer powerful clues about a truly revolutionary and democratizing feminism."--Adrienne Rich "If it were not for writers like Margaret, how would women around the world find each other when there is such an institutional effort to keep us apart and silent? Here Margaret brings us the voice of Sandino's daughters, honoring his hat and wearing their own, wiser now, having been part of political and personal revolution."--Holly Near "Powerful,...
"A collection of varied and amazing lives, all bent on shaping history. Together, these experienced, undeterred Nicaraguan women offer powerful clues ...
"Randall, feminist author/biographer of Latin American revolutionary women, documents the extraordinary stories of Nora Miselem Rivera and Maria Suarez Toro, 'disappeared' by the Honduran military in 1982, and released. They are an eye-opening exception to the tragic numbers of permanently 'disappeared' Latin Americans. The book breaks the silences surrounding this event: first, the silences around Honduras's largely unexplored counterinsurgent past; second, the silencing by Central America's Left of women's progressive movements; and finally, the abusive silencing by these movements when the...
"Randall, feminist author/biographer of Latin American revolutionary women, documents the extraordinary stories of Nora Miselem Rivera and Maria Suare...
Poetry. Margaret Randall describes her long love affair with the Grand Canyon as dating to the summer of 1947 when, lying about her age, her father took her down its trails by mule. Since then, she has returned more than a hundred times to explore its rims, hiking trails, river and side canyons. The poems that make up INTO ANOTHER TIME: GRAND CANYON REFLECTIONS draw on these experiences as well as on additional research and countless conversations with other canyon lovers. The book's main section emerged from a river trip in 1997. The cover painting and interior line drawings, by Albuquerque...
Poetry. Margaret Randall describes her long love affair with the Grand Canyon as dating to the summer of 1947 when, lying about her age, her father to...
In To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir and an examination of the revolution's great achievements and painful mistakes, the book paints a portrait of the island during a difficult, dramatic, and exciting time.
Randall gives readers an inside look at her children's education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people's lives. She explores issues of censorship and repression, describing how...
In To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir ...
