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Situated lives : gender and culture in everyday life

Title
Situated lives : gender and culture in everyday life / edited by Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, and Patricia Zavella.
Format
Book
Published
New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description
493 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
URL
<Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/96051900-d.html
Other contributors
Lamphere, Louise. Ragoné, Helena. Zavella, Patricia.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 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
Kinsey subjects
Gender role identification. Social conditions--United States. Status of women history.
Subject headings
United States--Social conditions--1980-2020
ISBN
0415918065 9780415918060 0415918073 (pbk.) 9780415918077 (pbk.)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
160.49 S58 1997
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute