Crisóstomo, Mercedes;
(2026)
Peruvian Peasant Women and Revolutionary Movements: La Convención’s Classist Revolution.
Journal of Latin American Studies
10.1017/s0022216x25101144.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article examines the crucial yet underexplored role of indigenous peasant women in the struggle for agrarian reform and peasant liberation during the second half of the twentieth century in Latin America. Focusing on and re-examining the peasant movement of La Convención (Peru) and employing historical and anthropological methods, it argues that these women were far from peripheral actors. They actively engaged in unions, collective actions and even armed militias, performing both traditional and non-traditional gender roles to challenge the exploitative hacienda system and gender hierarchies. The article also analyses the impact of the Cold War on their rhetoric, alliances and broader struggle for social justice.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Peruvian Peasant Women and Revolutionary Movements: La Convención’s Classist Revolution |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0022216x25101144 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x25101144 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press.This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | women’s history; Peru; Latin American politics; peasant indigenous women; revolution |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219934 |
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