Title: "We are the ones we have been waiting for": the feminization of resistance in Venezuela
Creator: Motta, Sara C.
Relation: Latin American Perspectives Vol. 40, Issue 4, p. 35-54
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582X13485706
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: An autonomist Marxist feminist analysis of the narratives of three women participants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution—women linked by their participation in the urban land committees of La Vega, a Caracas shantytown—stresses the fundamental significance of women’s struggles in this revolutionary process. By focusing on the realities of women in movement we can begin to grasp the complexity of the feminized political subjectivities being formed and the contradictions and tensions in this process. This reading seeks to rewrite, in solidarity with women in movement, the dominant patriarchal script of politics by placing their agency and rationality at the center of Venezuela’s revolution. There is an urgent need to recognize a feminization of resistance that is historically distinctive and challenges masculinist conceptualizations of political and social transformation.
Subject: autonomous Marxist feminism; Venezuela; Bolivarian revolution; women; resistance
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1308801
Identifier: uon:21719
Identifier: ISSN:0094-582X
Language: eng
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"We are the ones we have been waiting for": the feminization of resistance in Venezuela