Abstract

OLIVIER, Guadalupe  and  TAMAYO, Sergio. Women in political activism. Biographical Resonances of the 68 Movement. Secuencia [online]. 2017, n.97, pp.232-262. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i97.1375.

This article reconstructs the life stories of two activists who began working in social movements as one of the effects of the 1968 student movement. Through the use of the following categories: historical and biographical resonances of activism, as units of analysis, we establish a process of comparing life stories with a gender perspective. We emphasize the notion of personal availability proposed by McAdam (1988) by defining historical stages, derived from the country’s main social struggles in which the activists participated and were trained as leaders and intermediate political cadres, influencing their organizations and the movements in which they participated. The biographical resonances of their activism allowed them to recruit other participants, influence their worldviews, inspire new strategies of resistance and contribute to the impact of other activists in their struggle.

Keywords : life stories; biographical resonances of activism; personal availability; political commitment.

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