Strange Reciprocity

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

Sidney Perutz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2008
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1628-9 (ISBN)

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"This time show us like we really are!" This mandate from Doña Clara, homemaker-market merchant in the community of Tepoztlán, 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 "strange reciprocity" 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.

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

Chapter 1 Introduction: Keywords
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Mainstreaming Women's Work Processes
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Articulating Tepozteca into Commodity Culture[s]
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Local/Global Constellations
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Women's Work In and Out of Economic Space and Time
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Counting and Measuring Gender, 1990-2000
Chapter 7 Chapter 6. New Economy Housework
Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Three Primary Feminized Occupations
Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Making the Market System Work
Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Embedded in the Market
Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Fixed Mercado Trading
Chapter 12 Chapter 11. A Postindustrial Market System
Chapter 13 Chapter 12. Feminization and Community Survival Strategies
Chapter 14 Chapter 13. Gender Mainstreaming Insights

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.7.2008
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 241 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-1628-2 / 0739116282
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1628-9 / 9780739116289
Zustand	Neuware