Title: Women and ETA : the gender politics of radical Basque nationalism /
Authors: Hamilton, Carrie.
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
Year: 2007
Subjects: ETA (Organization) History.; ETA (Organization); Women Political activity Spain País Vasco History.; Nationalism Spain País Vasco History; Women political activists Spain País Vasco History; Women terrorists Spain País Vasco History; Nationalism Spain País Vasco History; País Vasco (Spain) History Autonomy and independence movements.; País Vasco (Spain) Politics and government
Abstract: Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, archival material and published sources, this book shows how women's participation in radical Basque nationalism has changed from the founding of ETA in 1959 to the present. It analyses several aspects of women's nationalist activism.
Contents: Introduction: Gender, nationalism and memory -- Growing up nationalist -- Gendering the roots of radical nationalism -- Nationalism goes public -- Constructing the male warrior and the homefront heroine -- From the domestic front to armed struggle -- The final front : arrest and prison -- Nationalism and feminism -- Women and the Basque conflict in the new millennium -- Conclusion.