Cymene Howe

Jun 10, 2014

Intimate Activism

The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua

Duke UP 2013

purchase at bookshop.org With Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2013), Cymene Howe offers an ethnography of activism. Woven into Nicaragua's political history of revolution and U.S. intervention, the struggle for sexual rights there takes place on three stages: in intimate settings of lesbian discussion groups, in the public sphere marked by demonstrations, press conferences and celebrations, and in visual and print media. Howe's informants (activists, advocates, students, educators, television actors, members of Nicaragua's queer community) illustrate the transformations and continuities in the culture of sexuality in Nicaragua.

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