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Gender's Place

Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America

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Editors:
  1. Rosario Montoya
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  2. Lessie Jo Frazier
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  3. Janise Hurtig
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: A Desalambrar: Unfencing Gender’s Place in Research on Latin America

    1. Introduction

      • Janise Hurtig, Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier
      Pages 1-18

  3. Gendered Knowledge in Particular Places

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Debating Women

      • Janise Hurtig
      Pages 21-43

    3. “To Act Like a Man”

      • Barry J. Lyons
      Pages 45-63

    4. Women’s Sexuality, Knowledge, and Agency in Rural Nicaragua

      • Rosario Montoya
      Pages 65-88

  4. Gender’s Place in Reproducing and Challenging Institutions and Ideologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Forging Democracy and Locality

      • Lessie Jo Frazier
      Pages 91-113

    3. “What the Strong Owe to the Weak”

      • Ana María Alonso
      Pages 115-134

    4. Placing Gender and Ethnicity on the Bodies of Indigenous Women and in the Work of Bolivian Intellectuals

      • Susan Paulson
      Pages 135-154

    5. The Racial—Moral Politics of Place

      • Marisol de la Cadena
      Pages 155-175

  5. Gender in Movement(s)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Engendering Leadership

      • Emma Cervone
      Pages 179-196

    3. Latinas on the Border

      • Victor M. Ortiz
      Pages 197-215

    4. “Making a Scene”

      • Charles H. Klein
      Pages 217-235

    5. By Night, a Street Rite

      • Marta Lamas
      Pages 237-253

  6. Critical Commentaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. Against Marianismo

      • Marysa Navarro
      Pages 257-272

    3. Understanding Gender in Latin America

      • Sonia Montecino
      Pages 273-280

    4. Local/Global

      • Altha J. Cravey
      Pages 281-287
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About this book

This collection brings together key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America in order to explore the ways that 'place' - understood both geographically and metaphorically - can serve as a key vehicle for analyzing the cultural, social, and historical specificity of gender relations and ideologies. Like Dorothy Hodgson's volume, Gendered Modernities, the book seeks to unite ethnographic specificity with theoretical cohesion in a way that demonstrates the unique contribution that anthropology can make to gender and area studies.

Reviews

'Gender's Place is a big rich collection that reminds us once again of how central gender is to a wide range of issues, and how important it is to look at gender in real times and places. Moving through many Latin American nations, and looking at everything from streets to states, from democratization to domestic violence, from borders to bodies, the book will be indispensable to feminist academics, activists, and audiences everywhere'. - Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University

'A daring and creative proposal that opens new conceptual horizons in gender studies and breaks with the universalizing assumptions (machismo-marianismo, public-private, indigenous culture-dominant culture) that have to this day pervaded gender studies in Latin America'. - Norma Fuller, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

'...the result is an edited volume that successfully extends the importance of classrooms, homes, streets, factories, haciendas...' - K.S. Fine-Dare, Choice

About the authors

ANA MARIA ALONSO Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona-Tucson, USA RUTH BEHAR Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, USA EMMA CERVONE Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, USA ALTHA J. CRAVEY Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, USA MARISOL DE LA CADENA Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA CHARLES H. KLEIN Health Program Planner at the HIV Prevention Section of the San Fransisco Department of Public Health, USA MARTA LAMAS Studied Anthropology at the Escuela National de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico and is the Editor of the Journal, Debate Feminista BARRY J. LYONS Anthropologist at Wayne State University, Michigan, USA SONIA MONTECINO Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Genero of the Universidad de Chile, Chile JUNE NASH Has carried out anthropological research on community, family and gender roles and the impact of globalization processes in Mexico, Bolivia and the United States MARYSA NAVARRO Charles Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA VICTOR ORTIZ Teaches at Northeastern Illinois University and is Coordinator of its Mexican/Caribbean Studies program SUSAN J. PAULSON Spent 12 years in South America developing graduate programs and doing field research

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender's Place

  • Book Subtitle: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America

  • Editors: Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier, Janise Hurtig

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12227-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6040-5Published: 02 May 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-12227-8Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 306

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Organic Chemistry, Anthropology, Feminism

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