TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turid Hagene
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1661-4720
TI  - Negotiating Love in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua
T2  - The role of love in the reproduction of gender asymmetry
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104197
N2  - 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 on life stories, interview materials and participant observation with the cooperative women and their husbands. The material and discursive practices and emotional experiences of men and women are examined in this particular socio-cultural setting. How do we account for the highly unequal bargains the women strike with their husbands, accepting large material responsibilities and «time-share» love even if they experience this as emotionally hurtful? The study testifies to women’s autonomy in family maintenance and religious practices, an autonomy which seems to falter in the fields of love and sexuality; some of the men and women, however, negotiate subtle changes in gender norms and values.
KW  - Nicaragua, Zweierbeziehung, Lebenswelt, Religious practise, Women's Lives, Gender and Power, Negotiating Patriarchy, Geschlechterforschung
LA  - English
ER  -