Gender's Place Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America

by Frazier, Lessie Jo; Martinez, Dolores; Montoya del Solar, Rosario

• ISBN13: 9781403960405
• ISBN10: 1403960402
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Rosario Montoya is Faculty Affiliate in the Anthropology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Lessie Jo Frazier is Assistant Professor History and Women’s Studies, and Latin American Studies Faculty Affiliate at the University of South Carolina.

Janise Hurtig is Research Specialist in the Humanities at the Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Preface: Gender Que Pica un Poco	ix
Ruth Behar
Introduction: A Desalambrar: Unfencing Gender's Place in Research on Latin America	1	(18)
Janise Hurtig
Rosario Montoya
Lessie Jo Frazier
1. Gendered Knowledge in Particular Places	19	(70)
Debating Women: Gendered Lessons in a Venezuelan Classroom	21	(24)
Janise Hurtig
``To Act Like a Man'': Masculinity, Resistance, and Authority in the Ecuadorian Andes	45	(20)
Barry J. Lyons
Women's Sexuality, Knowledge, and Agency in Rural Nicaragua	65	(24)
Rosario Montoya
2. Gender's Place in Reproducing and Challenging Institutions and Ideologies	89	(88)
Forging Democracy and Locality: Democratization, Mental Health, and Reparations in Chile	91	(24)
Lessie Jo Frazier
``What the Strong Owe to the Weak'': Rationality, Domestic Violence, and Governmentality in Nineteenth-Century Mexico	115	(20)
Ana Maria Alonso
Placing Gender and Ethnicity on the Bodies of Indigenous Women and in the Work of Bolivian Intellectuals	135	(20)
Susan Paulson
The Racial--Moral Politics of Place: Mestizas and Intellectuals in Turn-of-the-Century Peru	155	(22)
Marisol de la Cadena
3. Gender in Movement(s)	177	(78)
Engendering Leadership: Indigenous Women Leaders in the Ecuadorian Andes	179	(18)
Emma Cervone
Emma Cervone
Deborah Cohen
Latinas on the Border: The Common Ground of Economic Displacements and Breakthroughs	197	(20)
Victor M. Ortiz
``Making a Scene'': Travestis and the Gendered Politics of Space in Porto Alegre, Brazil	217	(20)
Charles H. Klein
By Night, a Street Rite: ``Public'' Women of the Night on the Streets of Mexico City	237	(18)
Marta Lamas
Lessie Jo Frazier
4. Critical Commentaries	255	(34)
Against Marianismo	257	(16)
Marysa Navarro
Understanding Gender in Latin America	273	(8)
Sonia Montesino
Deborah Cohen
Lessie Jo Frazier
Local/Global: A View from Geography	281	(8)
Altha J. Cravey
Postscript: Gender in Place and Culture	289	(8)
June Nash
Notes on Contributors	297	(4)
Index	301