After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua

by Florence E. Babb

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292709005
• ISBN13: 9780292709003
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"