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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

The Feminization of Resistance in Venezuela

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ID4499733
AuthorsSara C Motta (0000-0002-9643-0368, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume40
Issue4
Pages35-54
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x13485706
OpenAlexW2047744452
LanguageEN
Citations received45
References cited26

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. Un análisis marxista feminista autonomista de los relatos de tres mujeres que participaron en la Revolución Bolivariana de Venezuela-las mujeres unidas por su participación en los comités de tierras urbanas de La Vega, un rancho de Caracas-destaca la importancia fundamental de las luchas de las mujeres en este proceso revolucionario. Al centrarse en las realidades de las mujeres en movimiento, podemos empezar a comprender la complejidad de las subjetividades políticas feminizadas que se están formando y las contradicciones y tensiones en este proceso. Esta lectura pretende reescribir, en solidaridad con las mujeres en el movimiento, el texto patriarcal dominante de la política mediante la colocación de su agencia y racionalidad en el centro de la revolución de Venezuela. Hay una necesidad urgente de reconocer una feminización de la resistencia que es históricamente distintivo y desafía conceptualizaciones masculinistas de transformación política y social

Art · Humanities · Marxist philosophy · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America

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Citations per year3,46
Citation span2013 - 2026 (14)
Citation velocitycurrent
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