Women of the Praia Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community / Sally Cole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cole, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social conditions.

Women fishers.

Women fish trade workers.

Women--Economic conditions.

Women--Portugal--Vila Chã (Porto)--Economic conditions.

Women.

Women--Portugal--Vila Chã (Porto)--Social conditions.

Women fish trade workers--Portugal--Vila Chã (Porto)--Case studies.

Women fishers--Portugal--Vila Chã (Porto)--Case studies.

Portugal--Vila Chã (Porto).

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.

Summary:

In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal. Skillfully combining these life stories with cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean. Her very different strategy--a focus on women as workers--reflects the Portuguese women's own definition of themselves and allows them the strong, resonant voice that is the goal of both the new ethnography and feminist scholarship. From this new perspective, Cole proposes an important critique of the dominant paradigm of southern European gender relations as being embedded in the code of honor and shame. Covering the Salazar years, as well as the period since the 1974 Revolution, Cole shows that fisherwomen of the past enjoyed greater autonomy in work and social relations than do their daughters and granddaughters, who live in a context of increasing commoditization and industrialization. Central to this account is an examination of the changing structure and role of the household as economic production moved to the factory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Tables and Maps

Preface

CHAPTER 1. Vila Cha

CHAPTER 2. A Fisherwoman's Story

CHAPTER 3. The Maritime Household

CHAPTER 4. Women Work at Sea and on Land

CHAPTER 5. Work and Shame: the Social Construction of Gender

CHAPTER 6. Inveja: Women Divided?

CHAPTER 7. Fisherwomen and Factory Workers: New Work for Women

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691094649

0691094640

9780691214856

0691214859

OCLC:

1162817363