Gender's place : feminist anthropologies of Latin America / edited by Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier, and Janise Hurtig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montoya, Rosario, 1960-

Frazier, Lessie Jo, 1966-

Hurtig, Janise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Latin America.

Sex role.

Women--Latin America--Social conditions.

Women.

Feminist theory.

Feminist anthropology.

Latin America.

Social conditions.

Feminist anthropology--Latin America.

Feminist theory--Latin America.

Physical Description:

xii, 306 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

Gender's Place integrates key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America around the concept of "desalambrar" (to tear down fences). This collection explores ways in which the interrelationship of gender and "place" can serve as a lens for analyzing the cultural, social, and historical specificity of gender and other social inequalities. By "tearing down" theoretical and analytic fences prevalent in research on gender in Latin America in order to construct ethnographically specific alternatives, the book demonstrates the unique contribution that anthropology can make to gender and area studies.

Contents:

Preface: Gender Que Pica un Poco / Ruth Behar ix

Introduction: A Desalambrar: Unfencing Gender's Place in Research on Latin America / Janise Hurtig, Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier 1

1. Gendered Knowledge in Particular Places 19

1. Debating Women: Gendered Lessons in a Venezuelan Classroom / Janise Hurtig 21

2. "To Act Like a Man": Masculinity, Resistance, and Authority in the Ecuadorian Andes / Barry J. Lyons 45

3. Women's Sexuality, Knowledge, and Agency in Rural Nicaragua / Rosario Montoya 65

2. Gender's Place in Reproducing and Challenging Institutions and Ideologies 89

4. Forging Democracy and Locality: Democratization, Mental Health, and Reparations in Chile / Lessie Jo Frazier 91

5. "What the Strong Owe to the Weak": Rationality, Domestic Violence, and Governmentality in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Ana Maria Alonso 115

6. Placing Gender and Ethnicity on the Bodies of Indigenous Women and in the Work of Bolivian Intellectuals / Susan Paulson 135

7. The Racial

Moral Politics of Place: Mestizas and Intellectuals in Turn-of-the-Century Peru / Marisol de la Cadena 155

3. Gender in Movement(s) 177

8. Engendering Leadership: Indigenous Women Leaders in the Ecuadorian Andes / Emma Cervone, Translated by Emma Cervone, Translated by Deborah Cohen 179

9. Latinas on the Border: The Common Ground of Economic Displacements and Breakthroughs / Victor M. Ortiz 197

10. "Making a Scene": Travestis and the Gendered Politics of Space in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Charles H. Klein 217

11. By Night, a Street Rite: "Public" Women of the Night on the Streets of Mexico City / Marta Lamas, Translated by Lessie Jo Frazier 237

12. Against Marianismo / Marysa Navarro 257

13. Understanding Gender in Latin America / Sonia Montesino, Translated by Deborah Cohen, Translated by Lessie Jo Frazier 273

14. Local/Global: A View from Geography / Altha J. Cravey 281

Postscript: Gender in Place and Culture / June Nash 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403960399

1403960402

OCLC:

49976927