Lowell GudmundsonJoel WolfeHohenstein, Thomas A2024-04-262012-12-122013-02210.7275/3530817https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/47939This thesis makes two arguments. First, that the analytical lens of terrorism is useful to understanding the modern state because it pits the state against its antithesis. Additionally, the discursive contest between the state and terrorists is best understood within a gendered framework. Second, the Sandinista Revolution did not revolutionize the discourse the Nicaraguan state used to legitimate itself, thus limiting the movement’s revolutionary nature.SomozaSandinistaterrorismdoppelgangergenderpolitical violenceNicaraguaLatin American Historythesis