Women and the Shining Path

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 [...]