Gender's Place
Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America
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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.
About this Author
Rosario Montoyais Faculty Affiliate in the Anthropology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Lessie Jo Frazieris Assistant Professor History and Women's Studies, and Latin American Studies Faculty Affiliate at the University of South Carolina.
Janise Hurtigis Research Specialist in the Humanities at the Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Reviews
"...the result is an edited volume that successfully extends the importance of classrooms, homes, streets, factories, haciendas..."--K.S. Fine-Dare, Choice
"Gender's Place is a big rich collection that reminds us once again of how central gender is to a wide range of issues, and how important it is to look at gender in real times and places. Moving through many Latin American nations, and looking at everything from streets to states, from democratization to domestic violence, from borders to bodies, the book will be indispensable to feminist academics, activists, and audiences everywhere."
--Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University
"A daring and creative proposal that opens new conceptual horizons in gender studies and breaks with the universalizing assumptions (machismo-marianismo, public-private, indigenous culture-dominant culture) that have to this day pervaded gender studies in Latin America."
--Norma Fuller, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
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