Posted on August 15, 2008 by Ugly Sister
More than Half the Sky:
The Power of Women in Peru
By
Feather Crawford Freed
Introduction
The war between the Shining Path and the Peruvian state during the 1980s and 1990s left almost seventy thousand, mostly indigenous, Peruvians dead, and many more bereft, with emotional and physical scars. The legacy of this time of violence could appear entirely bleak, yet [...]
Filed under: Latin American History, Peru, gender, history | Tagged: gender, Herstory, history, life | rape, Peru, Sendero Luminisoso, sexual abuse, sexual violence, Shining Path, structural violence | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 15, 2008 by Ugly Sister
Blame Their Mothers
by Feather Crawford Freed
The first chapter of Klaus Theweleit’s book Male Fantasies vol 1, entitled Men and Women, is an examination of origins and manifestations of fascism. Theweleit argues that Freud’s concepts of psychoanalysis, such as the Oedipus complex, castration anxiety, repression and the unconscious, cannot sufficiently describe the types of fascist men that [...]
Filed under: books, gender, history, review | Tagged: castration anxiety, communism, fascism, freikorps, Freud, Germany | 1 Comment »
