ISBN:
9780415918060
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (502 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Situated Lives : Gender and Culture in Everyday Life
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Situated Lives brings together the most important recent feminist and critical research that situates gender in relationship to the historical and material circumstances where gender, race, class and sexual orientation intersect and shape everyday interaction. Contributors include: Barbara Babcock, Jean Comaroff, Sarah Franklin, Faye Ginsburg, Matthew Gutmann, Faye V. Harrison, Louise Lamphere, Ellen Lewin, Jos^'e Lim^'on, Iris Lopez, Emily Martin, Mary Moran, Kirin Narayan, Aihwa Ong, Devon G. Pe^~na, Beatriz Pesquera, Helena Ragon^'e, Rayna Rapp, Judith Rollins, Leslie Salzinger, Denise Segu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One The Power of Representation Gendered Ethnography in Practice; 1. How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist?; 2. Feminist Insider Dilemmas Constructing Ethnic Identity with "Chicana" Informants; 3. Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses; Part Two Reproducing the Body Reshaping Conception and Birth; 4. The Egg and the Sperm How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Making Sense of Missed Conceptions Anthropological Perspectives on Unexplained Infertility6. Chasing the Blood Tie Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Fathers; 7. Constructing Amniocentesis Maternal and Medical Discourses; 8. The "Word-Made" Flesh The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate; 9. Agency and Constraint Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City; Part Three Constructing Family Creating Household and Community; 10. Reinventing the South; 11. "This Permanent Roommate"
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12. "In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon" The Division of Household Labor13. The Meanings of Macho Changing Mexican Male Identities; 14. Holding Hands; Part Four Consciousness, Transformation, and Resistance at Work; 15. Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, Ressentiment; 16. A Maid by Any Other Name The Transformation of "Dirty Work" by Central American Immigrants; 17. Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs "You Have to Prove Yourself More"; 18. Knock 'Em Dead Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant
Description / Table of Contents:
19. Women's Resistance in the Sunbelt Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control20. Spirits of Resistance; Part Five Colonizing Gender and Sexuality Representation and Practice; 21. Making Empire Respectable The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures; 22. The Empire's Old Clothes Fashioning the Colonial Subject; 23. Mudwomen and Whitemen A Meditation on Pueblo Potteries and the Politics of Representation; 24. Warriors or Soldiers? Masculinity and Ritual Transvestism in the Liberian Civil War
Description / Table of Contents:
25. The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment A View from Jamaica26. The Mirror of Exploitation; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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