After revolution : mapping gender and cultural politics in neoliberal Nicaragua / Florence E. Babb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babb, Florence E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor women--Nicaragua--Managua.

Poor women.

Nicaragua--Economic policy.

Nicaragua.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) initiated a broad program of social transformation to improve the situation of the working class and poor, women, and other non-elite groups through agrarian reform, restructured urban employment, and wide access to health care, education, and social services. This book explores how Nicaragua's least powerful citizens have fared in the years since the Sandinista revolution, as neoliberal governments have rolled back these state-supported reforms and introduced measures to promote the development of a market-driven economy. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted throughout the 1990s, Florence Babb describes the negative consequences that have followed the return to a capitalist path, especially for women and low-income citizens. In addition, she charts the growth of women's and other social movements (neighborhood, lesbian and gay, indigenous, youth, peace, and environmental) that have taken advantage of new openings for political mobilization. Her ethnographic portraits of a low-income barrio and of women's craft cooperatives powerfully link local, cultural responses to national and global processes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter One INTRODUCTION Writing after Revolution

Chapter Two NEGOTIATING SPACES The Gendered Politics of Location

Chapter Three “MANAGUA IS NICARAGUA” Gender, Memory, and Cultural Politics

Chapter Four A PLACE ON A MAP The Local and the National Viewed from the Barrio

Chapter Five UNMAKING THE REVOLUTION Women, Urban Cooperatives, and Neoliberalism

Chapter Six FROM COOPERATIVES TO MICROENTERPRISES IN THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY ERA

Chapter Seven NARRATIVES OF DEVELOPMENT, NATIONHOOD, AND THE BODY

Chapter Eight TOWARD A NEW POLITICAL CULTURE

Chapter Nine CONCLUSION Remembering Nicaragua

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79653-6

OCLC:

568018278