Gendered scenarios of revolution : making new men and new women in Nicaragua, 1975-2000 / Rosario Montoya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montoya, Rosario, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Social change.

History.

Social aspects.

Nicaragua--History--Revolution, 1979--Social aspects.

Nicaragua.

Nicaragua--Social conditions--1979-.

Social conditions.

Social change--Nicaragua.

Sex role--Nicaragua.

Physical Description:

xxi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]

Summary:

Montoya, an anthropologist and historian who has been working in Nicaragua since 1989, considers how patriarchal gender-dynamics were reproduced after the Sandinista revolution. She begins her analysis in the late 19th century, where she traces "the relationship between the constitution and transformation of community and processes of state formation." She examines the formation of the revolutionary scenario in El Tule, where some Sandinistas lived from 1975-79, and how the cooperatives and collectives they helped found "became an arena for the constitution of the state's patriarchal and vanguardist relationship to [ordinary] men". To that end, she interrogates the ethico-political ideal of the New Men, but also argues that the Sandinista effort to integrate women "as class and national subjects into their nation-building project destabilized El Tule's local patriarchy". Her final chapter examines "the dynamics between women's gender transgressions and male violence against women" from 1975-2000, finding that the way the state handled domestic abuse sanctioned male domination "even as it offered women new visions of themselves as subjects of rights and provided avenues (albeit limited) for them to fight against male oppression." This text is an excellent example of feminist methodology in social science and history. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction : in search of the "new man"

State and community formation : El Tule to 1975

In search of utopia : El Tule's scenario and the Sandinista new man

Ambivalent revolutionaries : class, nation, and campesino politics

House, street, collective : revolutionary geographies and gender transformation

New men, new women, sexuality, and the domestic

Conclusions : empowerment and struggle in the new millennium.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.

ISBN:

9780816502417

0816502412

OCLC:

788270537