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Situated lives : gender and culture in everyday life
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- Creator
- edited by Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, and Patricia Zavella
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 1997
- Physical Details
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- 493 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415918060, 0415918065, 9780415918077, 0415918073
- OCLC
- ocm36051306
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- How native is a "native" anthropologist? / Kirin Narayan -- Feminist insider dilemmas : constructing ethnic identity with "Chicana" informants / Patricia Zavella -- Carne, carnales, and the carnivalesque : Bakhtinian batos, disorder, and narrative discourses / José E. Limón -- The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- Making sense of missed conceptions : anthropological perspectives on unexplained infertility / Sarah Franklin -- Chasing the blood tie : surrogate mothers, adoptive mothers, and fathers / Helena Ragoné -- Constructing amniocentesis : maternal and medical discourses / Rayna Rapp -- The "word-made" flesh : the disembodiment of gender in the abortion debate / Faye Ginsburg -- Agency and constraint : sterilization and reproductive freedom among Puerto Rican women in New York City / Iris Lopez -- Reinventing the South / Brett Williams -- "This permanent roommate" / Ellen Lewin -- "In the beginning he wouldn't lift even a spoon" : the division of household labor / Beatríz M. Pesquera -- The meanings of macho : changing Mexican male identities / Matthew C. Gutmann --Holding hands / Carol Stack -- Invisibility, consciousness of the other, ressentiment / Judith Rollins -- A maid by any other name : the transformation of "dirty work" by Central American immigrants / Leslie Salzinger -- Chicanas in white-collar jobs : "you have to prove yourself more" / Denise A. Segura -- Knock 'em dead : work on the killfloor of a modern beefpacking plant / Donald D. Stull -- Women's resistance in the sunbelt : Anglos and Hispanas respond to managerial control / Louise Lamphere and Patricia Zavella -- Spirits of resistance / Aihwa Ong -- Making empire respectable : the politics of race and sexual morality in twentieth-century colonial cultures / Ann L. Stoler -- The empire's old clothes : fashioning the colonial subject / Jean Comaroff -- Mudwomen and whitemen : a meditation on Pueblo potteries and the politics of representation / Barbara A. Babcock -- Warriors or soldiers? : masculinity and ritual transvestism in the Liberian civil war / Mary H. Moran -- The gendered politics and violence of structural adjustment : a view from Jamaica / Feye V. Harrison -- The mirror of exploitation / Devon G. Peã