Silent looms : women and production in a Guatemalan town / Tracy Bachrach Ehlers.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Ehlers, Tracy Bachrach (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgmenls
  • 1 Introduction
  • TheTown
  • Being in the Field
  • The Political Background
  • San Pedro Sacatep6quez in Ten Year Perspective
  • Guatemalan Gender Studies
  • Previous Studies of San Pedro Sacatepequez
  • Notes
  • 2 Ethnographic Sketch
  • The Fuentes Chicken Business
  • Aldeas San Jos6 Caben
  • Class Distinctions
  • History of San Pedro as a Weaving Town
  • Women and the Economy
  • Work and the Family
  • Highland Oasis?
  • Notes
  • 3 Female Labor and the Family
  • The Miranda Tienda
  • Female Domestic Labor
  • Shopping
  • Cooking
  • Washing
  • The Value of Daughters
  • Budgets
  • Dofla Yolanda
  • Dofla Antonia
  • Dofla Clarisa
  • Female Labor and Schooling
  • The Itinerant Textile Trader
  • La Casa de Las Mujeres
  • Female Labor in the Future
  • Notes
  • Photo graphs following page
  • 4 Female Traders
  • The Conu!rciante
  • The Traveling Breadmakers
  • Plaza Traders
  • The Soap Seller
  • The Vegetable Lady
  • The Tin Merchant
  • The Young Trader
  • Mercado Merchants
  • The T(pica Dealer
  • The Wholesaler/Retailer
  • Canasta Women
  • The Masa Maker
  • Storekeepers
  • Teresa Fuentes
  • Marga Mendez
  • Juana Orozco
  • Female Traders and the Internal Market
  • Notes
  • 5 Cottage Industry
  • Weaving as a Cottage Industry
  • The Ochoa Family Weavers
  • Traditional and Modem Clothing in San Pedro
  • The Value of Traje
  • Modem Cottage Industry
  • The Knitting Machine
  • Commercial Weaving
  • Dressmakers
  • The Demise of the Huipil
  • Notes
  • 6 Women and Men
  • TheGameofLove
  • Female Seclusion in Oass Perspective
  • Male Authority and the Family
  • Authority and Courtship
  • Getting Married
  • Unido Marriages
  • Marriage and the Poor Woman
  • Sex and the Parallel Marriage
  • The Latin Lover Debunlced
  • Marriage and Development
  • Notes
  • 7 Women and Social Change
  • References
  • lndex.