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 Segura, Carol Stack, Ann Stoler, Donald D. Stull, Brett Williams, Patricia Zavella.
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A collection of more than two dozen essays by diverse authors, this collection focuses on the role of gender and how it affects ordinary people. A cynic might say that some of the essays are merely academics stating the obvious, only in oddly tortured and clunking prose. Yet the themes explored in the collection, such as pieces dealing with people working in jobs that are not traditional for their genders, are deserving of the serious treatment they are given.
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"The breadth of this work makes it particularly beneficial for introductory courses on women's issues." -- Journal of Women's history
"With this pathbreaking new volume, Lamphere, Ragoné, and Zavella have gone a long way to putting anthropology back together again. Its twenty-six essays take up the local impacts of global capitalism and post-colonial social structures on women's and men's bodies, their families, and work lives. The essays retain anthropology's traditional focus on those far from the centers of wealth and power, foreground the creativity of their struggles in a generally hostile global climate, and deal thoughtfully with the relationships anthropologists have to the people we write about." -- Karen Brodkin, UCLA
"With this pathbreaking new volume, Lamphere, Ragoné, and Zavella have gone a long way to putting anthropology back together again. Its twenty-six essays take up the local impacts of global capitalism and post-colonial social structures on women's and men's bodies, their families, and work lives. The essays retain anthropology's traditional focus on those far from the centers of wealth and power, foreground the creativity of their struggles in a generally hostile global climate, and deal thoughtfully with the relationships anthropologists have to the people we write about." -- Karen Brodkin, UCLA
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A collection of the best work on cultural issues of gender.,
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Situated Lives is a collection of the most interesting up-to-date research examining cultural values and gender issues such as abortion, reproduction, the meanings of 'macho', the use of Central American women as underpaid/ overworked domestic workers, and women's issues in different areas of work in different countries. Each of the articles is careful to situate its findings in particular national/cultural/socio- economic contexts to avoid broad generalizations and instead work to understand specific dynamics. Contrary to the amazon.com review, I find the writting eloquent and topical. If you are interested in issues of women and work, gender in Third World countries and different ethnic groups of the US, or cultural questions that are key in our 'mulitcultural' world, I highly recommend this book.
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