Karen Kampwirth is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at Knox College. She is coeditor of Radical Women in Latin America (Penn State, 2001).

Introduction 1

1 New Roles for Sandinos Daughters 21

2 Feminine Challenges to Military Rule in El Salvador 45

The Rise of the Zapatista Army 83

Back to Cuba 117

Social Origins of the Central American Guerrillas 137

Bibliography 157

Index 187

Back Cover 195

Karen Kampwirth has here made a fundamental contribution to the literature on revolutions, weaving together structural political economy and personal stories in a provocative, soundly argued way. The stories are fascinating and gripping, the ideas striking and powerful, the writing highly engaging. The theoretical framework, based on a combination of structural and personal factors, is wise, inventive, and sound, and is tested with some very original and hard-to-get empirical data from four cases Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, and Chiapas. It will be widely seen as the essential work on the increasingly studied topic of women and revolution. --John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara

This is an intelligent and well-researched book essential reading for helping academics and practitioners think through the complexities of women s lives during and after revolutions. Kampwirth s book will chart a new course for us to study women as individuals, not just as a group, with regard to political and social revolutions. A book that superbly captures the real lives of women revolutionaries without over-romanticizing the revolutions or the roles of women. --Tracy Fitzsimmons, Shenandoah University

This is an intelligent and well-researched book essential reading for helping academics and practitioners think through the complexities of women s lives during and after revolutions. Kampwirth s book will chart a new course for us to study women as individuals, not just as a group, with regard to political and social revolutions. A book that superbly captures the real lives of women revolutionaries without over-romanticizing the revolutions or the roles of women. --Tracy Fitzsimmons, Shenandoah University