Women’s Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua
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Many women in the countryside challenge the way things are without using the word “gender,” without ever studying women and men. In Moeda, they ask, “What do you do in the morning and the aft ernoon?” Women realize, “Nobody gives water to me. I’m tired of giving water to others.” —Terezinha da Silva, Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária, Former Director of Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), President of the Board of Forum Mulher, Interview, Maputo, Mozambique, 7/23/99
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