Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America

Tine Destrooper, Ph.D. European University Institute (1986), is currently a researcher and guest professor at the universities of Leiden and Antwerp. She specializes in issues of gender, post-conflict societies, social mobilization and policy influencing in Central America and Europe.

• List of illustrations and tablesAbbreviationsPreface and acknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THE INFLUENCE OF CONFLICT AND ITS AFTERMATH ON THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT1. A social history of the women's movement in Guatemala and Nicaragua 2. Social movement spillover and organizational learning in the post-conflict women's movement3. Is there a real women’s movement? Cooperation, fragmentation and divisions in the movement4. Shifting paradigms: womanhood as a political strategyPART II: COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES TO WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT5. Revisiting mainstream feminist approaches6. Indigenous feminism and its experience-based approach to women's empowerment7. The socio-political value of an experience-based approach. Rethinking strategies of collective actionConclusion: New perspectives for female mobilizationAlphabetical overview of intervieweesBibliographyIndex