In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal. Skillfully combining these life stories with cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean. Her very different strategy--a focus on women as workers--reflects the Portuguese women's own definition of themselves and allows them the strong, resonant voice that is the goal of both the new ethnography and feminist scholarship. From this new perspective, Cole proposes an important critique of the dominant paradigm of southern European gender relations as being embedded in the code of honor and shame. Covering the Salazar years, as well as the period since the 1974 Revolution, Cole shows that fisherwomen of the past enjoyed greater autonomy in work and social relations than do their daughters and granddaughters, who live in a context of increasing commoditization and industrialization. Central to this account is an examination of the changing structure and role of the household as economic production moved to the factory.
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VILA CHA is located on the north coast of Portugal, twenty-three kilometers north of the district capital Porto, Portugal's second largest city, and eight kilometers south of the town of Vila do Conde (map 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maritime households, maritime woman, ter vergonha, wealthy agricultural households, wealthy lavradores, maritime women, casa role, emigrant husbands, interhousehold relations, seaweed harvest, male emigration, fishing households, seaweed fertilizer, parish residents, illegitimacy ratio, women factory workers, maritime economy, reproductive work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vila Chá, Vila Cha, Vila Chi, New State, Lugar da Praia, Vila Chd, Rio da Gândara, Vila Chä, Texas Instruments, Roman Catholic, Grand Banks, Póvoa de Varzim, Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Veiga de Oliveira, Alto Minho, First Communion, Rio da Gdndara, Second World War, Colonial Wars New!
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VILA CHA is located on the north coast of Portugal, twenty-three kilometers north of the district capital Porto, Portugal's second largest city, and eight kilometers south of the town of Vila do Conde (map 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maritime households, maritime woman, ter vergonha, wealthy agricultural households, wealthy lavradores, maritime women, casa role, emigrant husbands, interhousehold relations, seaweed harvest, male emigration, fishing households, seaweed fertilizer, parish residents, illegitimacy ratio, women factory workers, maritime economy, reproductive work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vila Chá, Vila Cha, Vila Chi, New State, Lugar da Praia, Vila Chd, Rio da Gândara, Vila Chä, Texas Instruments, Roman Catholic, Grand Banks, Póvoa de Varzim, Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Veiga de Oliveira, Alto Minho, First Communion, Rio da Gdndara, Second World War, Colonial Wars New!
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- Toward Anthropology of Women by Rayna R. Reiter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Family and Work in Rural Societies: Perspectives on Non-wage Labour by Norman Long in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean (Special Publication of the American Anthropological Associat) by David G. Gilmore in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library) by Elenore Smith Bowen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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