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Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit

Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit Stories of Solidarity, Solar Cooking, and Women's Leadership in Central America

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Publisher's Synopsis

Bill Lankford visited Nicaragua in 1984 to see the Sandinista revolution for himself. What he found led this physics professor to volunteer his skills teaching at the Central American University in Managua. There, he and his students developed a solar cooking project which took on a life of its own, spreading throughout the five countries of Central America. In Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit, Bill describes how local women used the tools of carpentry to build solar ovens and how they used the tools of feminism to take more control over their own lives and their communities. Bill leveraged his personal resources as a white North American man - professionally educated, fluent in English, with access to money and connections - to facilitate the work of Central American women who started by building ovens and went on to create an array of projects to meet basic needs, improve health, and increase access to educational and leadership opportunities for women.

About the Publisher

PM Press

PM Press was founded at the end of 2007 by a small collection of folks with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience. PM Press co-conspirators have published and distributed hundreds of books, pamphlets, CDs, and DVDs. Members of PM have founded enduring book fairs, spearheaded victorious tenant organizing campaigns, and worked closely with bookstores, academic conferences, and even rock bands to deliver political and challenging ideas to all walks of life. We're old enough to know what we're doing and young enough to know what's at stake.

Book information

ISBN: 9798887440217
Publisher: Pm Press
Imprint: PM Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.4209728
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20240314
Language: English
Number of pages: 185
Weight: 236g
Height: 154mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 17mm