Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town

by Tracy Bachrach Ehlers

"In her book, Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers captures the paradox of gender relations in a society that accords power and authority to men yet leaves the major burden of child care and economic maintenance of the family to women. Most monographs on Maya populations have either ignored women's contributions to the indigenous economy or, when they have included women's work, have ignored the contradiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367287285
• ISBN13: 9780367287283
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.5"