Between machismo and Liberation. The Sandinista Revolution and the West German Solidarity Movement with Nicaragua, 1978-1991. A Gender-specific Perspective.

20世纪70年代末，全世界公众对尼加拉瓜革命的同情在欧洲、北美和拉丁美洲的许多团结团体的成立中得到了体现，这些团体与桑地诺运动以及彼此之间都建立了网络。在尼加拉瓜境内外，妇女的承诺在这些运动中发挥了重要作用。这里提出的拟议研究项目以冷战为背景，分析了大西洋两岸主角之间的相互关系及其对尼加拉瓜桑地诺民族解放阵线这一跨国团结运动出现的影响。重点是具体性别的进程，这是研究的分析框架。这门学科是当代历史和社会科学研究的一个新领域——在国际范围内也是如此。该项目以历史性别研究和社会运动研究为基础，后者被视为全球运动。调查的方法方法旨在将以前没有联系的不同层次的结构和行动者联系起来：一方面，德意志联邦共和国的团结运动和女权运动之间的联系，另一方面，它们与在尼加拉瓜桑地诺运动中工作的妇女相互交流。这是第一次将重点明确放在来自南方的男女演员的作用上，他们将与来自北方的伙伴进行比较。拟议的研究背后的论点是，尼加拉瓜妇女不仅是团结的被动接受者，相反，她们积极参与了团结运动的起源，而且影响了联邦共和国妇女同胞的辩论。该项目旨在表明，团结不是将思想、理论和资源从欧洲转移到大西洋彼岸的片面过程，而是涉及相互交流的复杂过程，然而，这一过程从未完全摆脱不对称的权力结构。

Public sympathy around the world for revolutionary Nicaragua was manifested in the late 1970s in the founding of many solidarity groups in Europe, North America and Latin America, which were networked both with the Sandinista movement and with each other. Inside and outside Nicaragua the commitment of women played an important part in these movements. The proposed research project that is presented here analyzes the reciprocal relationships between protagonists on both sides of the Atlantic and their influence on the emergence of this transnational solidarity movement with Sandinista Nicaragua, with the Cold War as the background. The focus is on gender-specific processes, which form the analytical framework of the research. This subject is a new field in research into contemporary history and social science - in international terms, too. The project is grounded both in historical gender research and in research into social movements, the latter being viewed as global movements. The methodological approach of the investigation aims to draw together various levels of structures and of actors that have not previously been linked: on the one hand, connections between the solidarity and feminist movements in the Federal Republic of Germany, and on the other hand their reciprocal exchange with women working in the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua. For the first time the focus will be laid explicitly on the role of male and female actors from the South, who will be examined in relation to their partners from the North. Behind the proposed research lies the thesis that Nicaraguan women were not merely passive recipients of solidarity, but on the contrary participated actively in the genesis of the solidarity movement and moreover influenced the debates of their fellow women in the Federal Republic. The project aims to show that solidarity was not a one-sided process in which ideas, theories and resources were transferred from Europe to the other side of the Atlantic, but rather that complex processes of mutual exchange were involved, which were however never entirely free of asymmetrical power structures.