f view. The message was that women now were looser with their sexuality, sex obsessed, and sluttish, as was implied by the photograph. The AMNLAE was afraid that women would be degraded because of the way machistas think, and one has a harder time taking the revolutionary woman more seriously, if they are depicted as sex-crazed and loose. Such ways of thinking could even set back what women were striving for. As the war continued on, women were growing tired and weary of the war. Husbands and sons were being drafted to war in the name of their country, leaving behind a lonely wife and hungry children. In such cases, women had to learn quickly to become independent, becoming the mother and father of the families. They would go to work and make money for they family, while taking care of the family. They had to send their children to get jobs as soon as they are old enough, and since help is limited in such situations, women started teaching their sons from a young age that they were expected to help around the house. This is another result of the revolution, as well as another reason for women companionship. It wasnt until the war dragged on that men started cooperating more in the household chores during the revolution because mothers needed help caring for the family and because mothers started rearing their sons away from machista attitudes. As 1985 wore on, Nicaraguas economic situation began to deteriorate visibly. The first and hardest hit were the most vulnerable families- those households headed by women whose male breadwinners had abandoned them. Dona Celia and her family were in just such a position. Government subsidies could no longer moderate the effects of inflation on Dona Celias family, and few additional means of increasing the familys income were available to them: two children already worked at poorly paid bookkeeping jobs in the Ministry of Agrarian Reform; one son was in the military; the youngest son was not yet o...
