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Situated Lives Gender and Culture in Everyday Life

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ISBN-10: 0415918073

ISBN-13: 9780415918077

Edition: 1997

Authors: Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragone, Patricia Zavella

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Focusing on gender and culture the essays that comprise this volume examine gender in relation to culture, race, class and sexual orientation in an everyday sense. The emphasis is on how ordinary men and women live.
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Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 500
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.96" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.892

Introduction
The Power of Representation: Gendered Ethnography in Practice
How Native is a "Native Anthropologist"
Feministic Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with "Chicana" Informants
Carne, Carnales and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Women's Roles
Making Sense of Missed Conceptions
Surrogates, Fathers, and Adoptive Mothers
Constructing Aminocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses
The World Made Flesh: The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate
Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City
Constructing Family: Creating Household and Community
"Reinventing the South" in Upscaling Downtown
This Permanent Roommate
"In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon": The Division of Household Labor
The Meanings of Macho: Changing Mexican Male Identities
Holding Hands
Consciousness, transformation, and Resistance at Work
Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, Resentiment
A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of "Dirty Work" by Central American Immigrants
Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs: "You Have to Prove Yourself More"
Knock 'em Dead: Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant
Women's Resistance in the Sunbelt: Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control
Spirits of Resistance
Colonizing Gender and Sexuality: Representation and Practice
Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures
The Emperor's Old Clothes: Fashioning the Colonial Subject
Mudwomen and Whitemen
Warriors or Soldiers?: Masculinity and Ritual Transvestism in the Liberian Civil War
The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica
The Mirror of Exploitation
Index