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

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223 Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Alemán, Arnoldo, 118, 164, 180–81, 193 Anderson, Benedict, 189 Aretxaga, Begoña, 189 Asociación de Mujeres Nicaragüenses Luisa Amanda Espinosa (AMNLAE), 8, 120–21, 126, 127, 128, 151, 156, 175, 209n6; & family law, 153, 154–55, 157, 159–60, 161, 163–64, 187 Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo (ATC), women’s secretariats 127, 134 Avendaño, María Mercedes (Lorena), 65; as honored martyr, 1, 2, 3, 7–8 Bayard de Volo, Lorraine, 196 Bickham-Mendez, Jennifer, 165, 181, 194, 209nn1, 6, 7, 8, 210n3 Binford, Leigh, 200 Boal, Augusto, 70 Bolt, Alan (Jerónimo), 65, 66–67, 125, 205n2; in El Tule, 69–70, 85 87; on intelligence, 68–69 Borge, Tomás, 153, 162 Bourgois, Phillipe, 198, 207n6 Cabezas, Omar, 90 campesinos, 69, 88; activism of, 199–202; as a class, 76, 80–84; & cooperatives, 97, 99–100; divisions/ conflicts, 60–64, 105–10, 198–99; & governments, 81–82, 111–13, 160; & neoliberalism, 32, 152, 163–64, 166, 197; revolutionary “failure” of, 97–98, 102–5; & Sandinista state, 19–20, 113–18 CANTERA, 30, 33, 136, 142, 209n10; & domestic violence, 180–81 caudillismo, 13, 43–44, 45, 49–50 Cecilio, 66, 90–91, 141, 200–201 CEP-Alforja, 33, 74, 77, 86, 92, 93–94, 100, 101–2, 205n4; class concept of, 79–80; educational materials on El Tule, 205n4; women & gender in, 126, 130, 134–35, 142. See also popular education Chamorro, Violeta, 3, 116, 119, 136, 139, 164, 180 class, social, 91, 97; & exploitation, 89–90; & unity, 6, 67, 76, 86–87 class consciousness, 67, 110, 118; & cooperatives, 95, 101–2; family &, 110–11, 115–16; women &, 120–21, 139; workshop on, 79–84, 88 224 · Index collectives, women’s, xi–xii, 30, 73, 173; men’s opposition to, 121–22, 133–36, 139, 149; & rural development 98, 125–26, 128–29; & state mystification, 129–31; as threat to men, 142–48; & women’s divisions, 131–32, 136–37, 150 competition, 75; in cooperatives, 109–10; households &, 54–55; for land, 58–59, 60–61; sexual, 53–54, 132, 145; sibling , 57–58 Consejos del Poder Ciudadano (CPC), 199 Constitution of 1987, 154–55, 168 Contra War, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 82, 90, 94, 97, 114, 121, 149, 155, 190, 207n9; & collectives, 126–27 Cooperativas Agropecuarias Sandinistas (CAS), 98–99, 206n3, 207n5 cooperatives, 128; critiques of, 104; in El Tule, 30, 36, 73, 96; as local scenario, 88, 98, 101–2; & neoliberalism, 118, 192 Criquillon, Ana, 155 Dávila Bolaños, Alejandro, 23–24 democracy, participatory, 10, 13, 14, 15–16, 19, 25, 26, 51, 94, 114, 149, 150, 154–55, 156, 192; direct, 199; discussions of, 181, 182, 184–85; promotion of, 195 domestic violence, 32, 84, 135–36, 151–52, 156–62, 168, 169–70, 172, 173–74, 202, 209n5; Law 230, 180–81; & Women’s Police Stations, 180; workshop on, 181–86 economic development: Sandinista agricultural, 20, 95, 98–99, 113, 116, 128, 146–47 Edelman, Marc, 197, 201 education. See popular education El Salvador: compared, 199, 200, 207 El Tule, 5, 21, 90, 121; description of, 28–30; as model village, 6–7, 9, 32–33, 73–74, 91; pre-Sandinista history, 40–43, 46, 47, 50, 52, 58–64; revolution &, 76–77, 195, 196–97 ethnographic research, xiii–xiv, xvi, 198; & Sandinista scenario, xv, xvii, 33–35, 103–4 families, 37, 83, 116, 157, 208n4; in collectives, 138–39; in cooperatives, 106–8; FSLN &, 121, 146–47, 153–56; & New Man, 140–41; patriarchy, 44, 125, 142–44, 164; relationships & roles, 52–58; & state, 110–11 Field, Les, 23–24, 196, 204 Fonseca, Carlos, 16, 24–25, 66, 68 Freire, Paulo, 31, 68–69, 94 Frente Sur, 73, 74 FSLN. See Sandinista Front for National Liberation gender consciousness, 87–88, 127, 134, 150 gender relations, 44–45, 127, 209nn4, 5, 9; in El Tule, xiii, xv–xvi, 21–22, 36–37, 70, 123–24, 135–36, 144–45; & house-street discourse, 122–25; marriage, 55–56, 163; & New Man, 140–41; & Sandinista state, 98, 129–30, 146–47, 149, 152–56; transformations in, 163–65; women’s transgressions, 57, 139–40, 147, 168–79. See also domestic violence; sexual-moral economy Gould, Jeffrey, 49, 50–51, 115 Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 7, 51, 90, 104 Hale, Charles, 189–90, 204n8 History of a Decision, 73, 78, 81–83, 85, 88, 92, 94 Hodges, Donald, 51 house-street discourse: men’s status & role in, 140, 143, 160–61, 172–73, 175; patriarchy and, 147; woman...