Montoya, R. (2003). House, street, collective: Revolutionary geographies and gender transformation in Nicaragua, 1979-99. Latin American Research Review, 38(2), 61-93.

The article reports the findings obtained in the community of a Sandinista village in Nicaragua. The author examines the gender tensions surrounding two women’s collectives in this village. The findings shed light on microprocesses of gender transformation during the Sandinista period and its aftermath. The study uses an analytical approach that takes into account the uniqueness of gender relations in different contexts of life in that rural community. The author also shows the ways in which state policies affect these relations.

It demonstrates that contradictions in Sandinista gender ideology permitted men to understand revolutionary masculinity in their own terms. The inconsistencies allowed men to oppose women’s participation. The author concludes that the Sandinista revolution did not succeed in dismantling gender inequality systems. However, the author argues that the inclusion of women as national subjects in the nation-building process destabilized local practices of patriarchy.