Hierarchies of Care : Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru / Krista E. Van Vleet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965- author.

Series:

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--Peru--Cuzco.

Girls.

Motherhood--Peru--Cuzco.

Motherhood.

Orphanages--Peru--Cuzco.

Orphanages.

Cuzco (Peru)--Social conditions--1968-.

Cuzco (Peru).

Palomitay (orphanage)--Peru.

Cusco, Peru--Orphanages.

Social conditions.

Peru--Cuzco.

Local Subjects:

Palomitay (orphanage)--Peru.

Cusco, Peru--Orphanages.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas. They endeavor to create a 'good life' for themselves and their children in a context complicated by competing demands, economic uncertainties, and structured relations of power. Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers an ethnography of Palomitáy's young women. She pays particular attention to the moral entanglements that emerge via people's efforts to provide care amid the inequalities and insecurities of today's Peru. State and nonstate participants involved in the women's intimate lives influence how the women see themselves as mothers, students, and citizens. Both deserving of care and responsible for caring for others, the young women must navigate practices interwoven with a range of a racial, gendered, and class hierarchies." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Young Mothers, Moral Experience, and the Politics of Care p. 1

Chapter 2 Dimensions of Precarity and Possibility in Peru p. 31

Chapter 3 Shaping (Modern) Mothers in Palomitáy p. 59

Chapter 4 Dynamic Selves, Uncertain Desires p. 86

Chapter 5 Making Images, (Re)Visioning Mothers (a Photography Workshop) p. 105

Chapter 6 Moral Dialogues, Caring Dilemmas (a Theater Workshop) p. 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.

ISBN:

9780252084614

0252084616

9780252042782

0252042786

OCLC:

1125014498