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