Gender's Place
Subtitle: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America
Contributors: Lessie Jo Frazier (Editor); Janise Hurtig (Editor); Rosario Montoya del Solar (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781403960399
Subjects: Feminism; Social & cultural anthropology; Women; Latin America; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Sex role; Anthropology - General; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Feminist anthropology; Social conditions
First sentence: My field notes remind me that it was a Wednesday morning in March of 1992, six months into the school year and nine months into my ethnographic research in the Venezuelan town of Timotes.
Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Gender's Place integrates key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America around the concept of "desalambrar" (to tear down fences). This collection explores ways in which the interrelationship of gender and "place" can serve as a lens for analyzing the cultural, social, and historical specificity of gender and other social inequalities. By "tearing down" theoretical and analytic fences prevalent in research on gender in Latin America in order to construct ethnographically specific alternatives, the book demonstrates the unique contribution that anthropology can make to gender and area studies.