Strange Reciprocity - Mainstreaming Women's Work in Tepotzlan in the 'Decade of the New Economy' (Hardcover)

"This time show us like we really are " This mandate from Dona Clara, homemaker-market merchant in the community of Tepoztlan, makes explicit the dimensions of this concertedly empirical, multidisciplinary study of women's ways of using a neoliberal development model that systematically disadvantages them to create value and values. Members of one of the first New World populations to have their labor globally feminized, into the twenty-first century, Tepoztecas have continuously contrived to adjust organizationally to production-reproduction systems that use gender inequalities to be global. The many faceted work experiences and broad academic interests of the anthropologist/author uniquely equip her to demystify and give a history to women's work during the period of 1990 to 2000, a time of great transformation for Tepoztecas on the frontlines of massive economic, social, and political challenges for stakeholders. The "strange reciprocity" disaggregated as worksite exchanges of valued things is women's ways of turning to their advantage the very ideologies and technologies that simultaneously make them central to Free Market capitalism while constraining their access to resources that can be exchanged at prices set by and for awesomely powerful interests or not. Nevertheless, Strange Reciprocity qualitatively and quantitatively confirms that as Tepoztecas construct small economies against the grain of what take over agendas seem to have in mind for them, they are structurally adjusting the big economies of the winners."

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	July 2008
Authors:	Sidney Perutz
Dimensions:	241 x 161 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	282
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-1628-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-7391-1628-2
Barcode:	9780739116289

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