Strange Reciprocity (eBook)

Mainstreaming Women's Work in Tepotzlan in the 'Decade of the New Economy'

Sidney Perutz (Autor)

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1955
282 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3026-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Women of TepoztlOn were among the first New Spain labor forces to have their continuum of paid and unpaid work processes globally feminized. Focusing on the transformational 1990 to 2000 period, this book moves across time, space, and organizational changes to make explicit multitasking women's experiences of turning to their advantage development policies and practices systematically loaded against them from the outside in and the inside out.

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"e;This time show us like we really are!"e; This mandate from Dona Clara, homemaker-market merchant in the community of Tepoztlan, makes explicit the dimensions of this concertedly empirical, multidisciplinary study of women's ways of using a neoliberal development model that systematically disadvantages them to create value and values. Members of one of the first New World populations to have their labor globally feminized, into the twenty-first century, Tepoztecas have continuously contrived to adjust organizationally to production-reproduction systems that use gender inequalities to be global. The many faceted work experiences and broad academic interests of the anthropologist/author uniquely equip her to demystify and give a history to women's work during the period of 1990 to 2000, a time of great transformation for Tepoztecas on the frontlines of massive economic, social, and political challenges for stakeholders. The "e;strange reciprocity"e; disaggregated as worksite exchanges of valued things is women's ways of turning to their advantage the very ideologies and technologies that simultaneously make them central to Free Market capitalism while constraining their access to resources that can be exchanged at prices set by and for awesomely powerful interests-or not. Nevertheless, Strange Reciprocity qualitatively and quantitatively confirms that as Tepoztecas construct small economies against the grain of what take over agendas seem to have in mind for them, they are structurally adjusting the big economies of the winners.

Autor

Sidney Perutz is a research associate professor at Southern Methodist University and Lecturer at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: KeywordsChapter 2 Chapter 1. Mainstreaming Women's Work ProcessesChapter 3 Chapter 2. Articulating Tepozteca into Commodity Culture[s]Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Local/Global ConstellationsChapter 5 Chapter 4. Women's Work In and Out of Economic Space and TimeChapter 6 Chapter 5. Counting and Measuring Gender, 1990-2000Chapter 7 Chapter 6. New Economy HouseworkChapter 8 Chapter 7. Three Primary Feminized OccupationsChapter 9 Chapter 8. Making the Market System WorkChapter 10 Chapter 9. Embedded in the MarketChapter 11 Chapter 10. Fixed Mercado TradingChapter 12 Chapter 11. A Postindustrial Market SystemChapter 13 Chapter 12. Feminization and Community Survival StrategiesChapter 14 Chapter 13. Gender Mainstreaming Insights

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.1955
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Gender and Family
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-3026-9 / 0739130269
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-3026-1 / 9780739130261