Women Who Stay Behind Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico / Ruth Trinidad Galván.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trinidad Galván, Ruth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexicans--United States.

Mexicans.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Foreign workers--Family relationships--Mexico.

Foreign workers.

Wives--Effect of husband's employment on--Mexico.

Wives.

Rural women--Mexico--Social conditions.

Rural women.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

University of Arizona Press 2015

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The book uncovers the social, educational, and cultural tools rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by migration. It addresses the material conditions that lead to the migration of adults from the area, but at the core are the educational and personal endeavors of women to get ahead without the men in their families"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Julieta : wife of a migrant man

Transmigration, transborder realities, and the transformation of women who stay behind

Andrea : hesitant and unappreciated activist

Globalizing from below and the work of grassroots organizations

Carolina : devoted mother and community leader

Pedagogical spaces of convivencia and healing

Jovita : caring and humble woman

Campesina epistemologies and pedagogies of the spirit.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780816539246

0816539243

9780816501984

081650198X

OCLC:

903620908

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access