...Elizabeth Dore Before the Revolution: Women’s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 . By González-Rivera Victoria . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 224 pp. Cloth , $64.95...

...Sandra McGee Deutsch Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964–1973 . By Power Margaret . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2002 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 311...

... for any of its deficiencies. Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Right-wing nationalist groups have long fascinated scholars and observers of twentieth-century Argentina. Yet the Liga Patriótica Argentina, once described as “the most powerful political association in the country...

...Caroline Winterer On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru . By Maccormack Sabine . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xix , 320 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright 2008 by Duke University...

... into concrete resistance. They did this via the clandestine distribution of funds to Chile, human rights campaigns at the United Nations to isolate the Chilean dictatorship, and efforts to undermine US-Chilean bilateral relations. Simultaneously, Chilean left-wing parties had to come to terms with defeat...

...Benjamin Cowan Abstract This article takes up the story of right-wing mobilization before and during Brazil’s military government of 1964–1985. Understanding the regime’s violent countersubversion requires analysis of the ideology that framed it. This ideology flourished among a long-neglected...

...James N. Green Abstract Several thousand students joined small clusters of soldiers, workers, and others in revolutionary opposition to the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship that came to power in 1964 and controlled the government for two decades. Operating underground, these left-wing...

... both the political sociability of working-class families and their language of rights. Drawing on a variety of sources, such as trade-union journals, the left-wing press, major national newspapers, company documents, official records, and memoirs of labor militants, the essay contends that the great...

... authoritarianism rather than being the result of a transition to democracy. The relationship with homophobic Peronists and left-wing traditions was, paradoxically, crucial for the emergence of the FLH. Most homosexual activists came from the Left, and they understood homosexual liberation as one aspect...

... their votes on behalf of a variety of conservative causes célèbres, like schoolchildren whose sexuality might become muddled by Rousseff's party's supposed promotion of the concept that gender is a social construct. It seemed that a new right-wing era had arrived, taking advantage of Brazilians' conservative...

... the period of Spanish colonial rule. Lara deftly highlights the iconographic transformations that occurred when Saint Francis traveled to the Andes as an agent of religious conversion. Countless processional sculptures produced in Peru and Bolivia feature Saint Francis with silver wing attachments, while...

.... Assuming the butterfly, for its own reason, is headed north, the right wing is a flat limestone plateau of sedimentary rock, and the left is the variegated top of a volcanic intrusion. On the left wing, the administrative capital of Basse-Terre faces the sheltered Caribbean, with mountains to it back...

..., the right-wing equivalent of the leaders of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), many of whom also emerged from the universities during the 1960s. During the death throes of the traditional Right and the birth pangs of a new modern Right, two possibilities emerged. These were the National Party...

... but confused Luis Carlos Prestes, Brazil’s left-wing militants simply mimicked imported slogans and analyses. In consequence, the Brazilian Communist party and its fellow travelers found themselves unceremoniously jettisoned from the nationalistic tenente movement, which had erupted in 1922 and which had...

...Claudio Robles-Ortiz Finally, another strength of this book is its rich bibliography, which the author reads selectively and critically, based on his exhaustive research on Chilean right-wing political actors, both fascist and otherwise. Klein is also to be commended for using a variety...

... of Western civilization. Right-wing civic organizations — the Liga de Defesa Nacional, Rearmamento Moral, and Tradição, Família, e Propriedade — justified government repression of student movements, unions, and political parties as part of a national crusade against “the combined crises of communist...

...-wing women in El Salvador. Kelley Ready studies the ways in which postwar Salvadoran feminists reconstructed fatherhood and motherhood, and Ilja Luciak compares women’s participation in revolutionary movements and the steps taken toward gender equality after the peace accords in Guatemala, on the one...

.... government officials (Oliver North and members of the CIA, for example); drug traffickers; right-wing politicians and military officers in Central America and Argentina; and assorted stooges of the United States, such as Panama’s Manuel Noriega. To the Reagan and Bush administrations, the Sandinista...

... no primary data; he relies on secondary sources throughout. The book is so poorly documented that the author retreats into left-wing conspiracy theories. Brown accuses hard-line cold warriors in the intelligence community of planning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He parrots filmmaker Oliver...