Negotiating Love in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: The role of love in the reproduction of gender asymmetry

This book explores the issue of love and its place in the reproduction of gender asymmetry in Nicaragua. The theme is discussed in the context of specific religious and work practices, living arrangements, gender values and norms, and the gender practices and legislation of the Sandinista revolution.
The study uses lifeworld phenomenology as its theoretical approach, placing people’s own experience center stage. Therefore, a case study of the Esperanza sewing cooperative is presented, built ...