Gendered Scenarios of Revolution: Making New Men and New Women in Nicaragua, 1975–2000

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction: In Search of the “New Man” 1 1. State and Community Formation: El Tule to 1975 39 2. In Search of Utopia: El Tule’s Scenario and the Sandinista New Man 65 3. Ambivalent Revolutionaries: Class, Nation, and Campesino Politics 95 4. House, Street, Collective: Revolutionary Geographies and Gender Transformation 119 5. New Men, New Women, Sexuality, and the Domestic 151 Conclusions: Empowerment and Struggle in the New Millennium 189 Notes 203 Bibliography 211 Index 223 ...