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HAGENE, Turid. Amor, género, y poder: un caso de la Nicaragua posrevolucionaria. Latinoamérica [online]. 2008, n.46, pp.169-206. ISSN 2448-6914.

There has been a tendency to interpret the gender asymmetry as a product of the economic dependency that many women experience in their conjugal relationships. This article argues that love plays an important -and understudied- part in the reproduction of these inequalities. The study is based on an ample ethnographic material from post-revolutionary Nicaragua, analyzing practices and discourses of love, sexuality, gender identities, and processes of power which develop in the heterosexual couples under study. The gender norms and the division of labor between men and women in the discursive fields of emotion and sexuality respectively, are shown to constitute a disadvantage for the women, in spite of their agency and economic independence.

Palavras-chave : Love; Sexuality; Gender; Power; Nicaragua; Economic independence.