Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America

by Lessie Jo Frazier (Editor), Dolores Martínez (Editor), Rosario Montoya del Solar (Editor)

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.

312 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2002