Strange Reciprocity - Mainstreaming Women s Work in Tepotzlan in the Decade of the New

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Sidney Perutz, Sidney S. Perutz
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2010
• EAN: 9780739116296
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1629-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Gender studies: women and girls, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Anthropology;Gender and Family