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Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia / Marcia Stephenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stephenson, Marcia, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role.
- Bolivia--Politics and government.
- Bolivia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- How the state's desire for a racially and culturally homogenous society has been deployed through images of womanhood that promote the notion of an idealized, acculturated female body.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Race, Gender, and Modernity in the Bolivian Andes
- 1. Skirts and Polleras: Ideologies of Womanhood and the Politics of Resistance in La Paz, 1900-1952
- 2. Mothering the Nation: Antonio Díaz Villamil's La niña de sus ojos
- 3. Dismembered Houses
- 4. Fashioning the National Subject: Pedagogy, Hygiene, and Apparel
- 5. The Politics of Hunger
- Afterword: "'AlterNative' Institutions"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stephenson, Marcia Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
- ISBN:
- 9780292763487
- 0292763484
- OCLC:
- 1475141273
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