From reviews of the first edition: "This intriguing study of
women's role in household, town, and regional economic activity is
a very revealing and important contribution to the growing
literature on women and social change in Latin America.... Scholars
and undergraduates interested in the Indians of Mesoamerica, and,
more generally, in the changing relations of men and women
everywhere, will welcome this book." -- Choice "Ehlers clearly
shows the differential impact of capital penetration on women's
survival strategies by social class, showing how options for some
are limited, for others expanded, but changed for all. Silent Looms
would be...an important book to include in courses on women in
Latin America, women in development, and feminist methodologies."
-- Association for Women in Development Newsletter "Ehlers weaves a
lively tale as colorful as the huipiles worn by the women she
studies. She embroiders the small details that bring to life a
whole town of women and children." -- Latin American Research
Review
Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has
updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on
the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatepe quez. Revisiting many of
the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her
earlier hopeful assessment of women's entrepreneurial
opportunities, Ehlers convincingly demonstrates that development
and commercial growth in the region have benefited men at the
expense of women.
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