House/Garden/NationHow ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinistas electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between the neo liberal and marxist projects. It is such transitions that Ileana Rodrguez takes up here, unraveling their weave of gender, ethnicity, and nation as it