Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia

by Marcia Stephenson

Book Overview

A collection of papers which analyse how the interlocking tropes of fashion, motherhood, domestication, hygiene, and hunger are used as tools for the production of dominant, racialized ideologies of womanhood.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292777426
• ISBN13: 9780292777422
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fascinated with interesting detail

This book provides some very interesting information about how modern societal pressures are brought to bear on indigenous women and how these subtle and rather insidious pressurs can transform or act as a catalyst for group identity.Very interesting!