Gender's place : feminist anthropologies of Latin America

This collection brings together key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America in order to explore the ways that 'place' - understood both geographically and metaphorically - can serve as a key vehicle for analyzing the cultural, social, and historical specificity of gender relations and ideologies. Like Dorothy Hodgson's volume, Gendered Modernities, the book seeks to unite ethnographic specificity with theoretical cohesion in a way that demonstrates the unique contribution that anthropology can make to gender and area studies. Publisher Description (unedited Publisher Data) Gender's Place Integrates Key Theoretical Issues And Rich Ethnographic Cases In The Feminist Anthropology Of Latin America Around The Concept Of Desalambrar (to Tear Down Fences). This Collection Explores Ways In Which The Interrelationship Of Gender And Place Can Serve As A Lens For Analyzing The Cultural, Social, And Historical Specificity Of Gender And Other Social Inequalities. By Tearing Down Theoretical And Analytic Fences Prevalent In Research On Gender In Latin America In Order To Construct Ethnographically Specific Alternatives, The Book Demonstrates The Unique Contribution That Anthropology Can Make To Gender And Area Studies. Preface : Gender Que Pica Un Poco / Ruth Behar -- Introduction : A Desalambrar : Unfencing Gender's Place In Research On Latin America / Janise Hurtig, Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier -- 1. Gendered Knowledge In Particular Places -- Debating Women : Gendered Lessons In A Venezuelan Classroom / Janise Hurtig -- To Act Like A Man : Masculinity, Resistance, And Authority In The Ecuadorian Andes / Barry J. Lyons -- Women's Sexuality, Knowledge, And Agency In Rural Nicaragua / Rosario Montoya -- 2. Gender's Place In Reproducing And Challenging Institutions And Ideologies -- Forging Democracy And Locality : Democratization, Mental Health, And Reparations In Chile / Lessie Jo Frazier -- What The Strong Owe To The Weak : Rationality, Domestic Violence, And Governmentality In Nineteenth-century Mexico / Ana María Alonso -- Placing Gender And Ethnicity On The Bodies Of Indigenous Women And In The Work Of Bolivian Intellectuals / Susan Paulson -- Racial-moral Politics Of Place : Mestizas And Intellectuals In Turn-of-the-century Peru / Marisol De La Cadena -- 3. Gender In Movement(s) -- Engendering Leadership : Indigenous Women Leaders In The Ecuadorian Andes / Emma Cervone -- Latinas On The Border : The Common Ground Of Economic Displacements And Breakthroughs / Victor M. Ortiz -- Making A Scene : Travestis And The Gendered Politics Of Space In Porto Alegre, Brazil / Charles H. Klein -- By Night, A Street Rite : Public Women Of The Night On The Streets Of Mexico City / Marta Lamas -- 4. Critical Commentaries -- Against Marianismo / Marysa Navarro -- Understanding Gender In Latin America / Sonia Montesino -- Local/global : A View From Geography / Altha J. Cravey -- Postscript : Gender In Place And Culture / June Nash. Edited By Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier, And Janise Hurtig. Outgrowth Of A Latin American Studies Association Panel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Debating Women....Pages 21-43 “To Act Like a Man”....Pages 45-63 Women’s Sexuality, Knowledge, and Agency in Rural Nicaragua....Pages 65-88 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 Forging Democracy and Locality....Pages 91-113 “What the Strong Owe to the Weak”....Pages 115-134 Placing Gender and Ethnicity on the Bodies of Indigenous Women and in the Work of Bolivian Intellectuals....Pages 135-154 The Racial—Moral Politics of Place....Pages 155-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Engendering Leadership....Pages 179-196 Latinas on the Border....Pages 197-215 “Making a Scene”....Pages 217-235 By Night, a Street Rite....Pages 237-253 Front Matter....Pages 255-255 Against Marianismo ....Pages 257-272 Understanding Gender in Latin America....Pages 273-280 Local/Global....Pages 281-287 Postscript....Pages 289-296 Back Matter....Pages 297-306 My field notes remind me that it was a Wednesday morning in March of 1992, six months into the school year and nine months into my ethnographic research in the Venezuelan town of Timotes.