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'Feminine Virtues Violated': Motherhood, Female Militancy and Revolutionary Violence in Elizabeth Inchbald's 'The Massacre' (1792)

“…No Gentlemen, we wish only to defend ourselves the same as you. 21 Léon's request is not that a woman should leave the home in favour of the battlefield, and go out of her way to meet with the enemy, but rather that if the enemy is brought to the woman, she should be granted the right to defend herself with a more reliable shield than that of her femininity. In The Massacre, Inchbald dramatises the necessity of Léon's plea, by suggesting that a woman's ability to fulfil her domestic role goes hand in hand with her right to bear arms.…”

Democracia en la región andina

“…Perú, 1980Periodos Tasa 1980-198542,4 1985-199042,4 1990 Las variaciones netas en las votaciones presidenciales entre 1980 y el 2006 siempre han superado el 40% (ver tabla 1). Los resultados para las elecciones parlamentarias no difieren mucho de las presidenciales.…”