Women of the Nicaraguan Revolution During the second half of the 20th century, Nicaragua saw more than its fair share of guerilla movements, of both the Left and Right. Extreme conditions (dictatorship, vicious poverty, foreign intervention) often produced extreme solutions. And women were active participants in the search for solutions in Nicaragua. In the case of the Sandinista guerilla movement of the 1960s and 1970s that would eventually topple the Somoza dictatorship, the role of …showed first 75 words of 1929 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1929 total…of a promise that lasted slightly more than a decade, the women of Sandino's Daughters will stand as a monument to all those who yearn to be free. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Enriquez, Laura J. 1997. Agrarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. Mason, T. David 1992. “Women’s Participation in Central American Revolutions” Comparative Political Studies. Vol. 25, No. 1, (April). Randall, Margaret. 1994. Sandino’s Daughters. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.