Gender, Family and Work in Naples (Hardcover)

Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline's traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with material processes in the constitution of personal and social identities. In this ethnographic account of the labour market in Naples, the author shows how cultural definitions of gender can be used to investigate broad social processes. Scarce stable employment in the area means that household members are forced to diversify their economic activities in order to survive. Petty entrepreneurship is an option which is almost exclusively available to men. Women, who are either unable or unwilling to obtain factory work, are generally confined to the status of outworkers. The author emphasises that individual choices cannot be attributed solely to economic opportunities but that concepts of selfhood, gender identity and the symbolic value of female sexuality are also important.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Mediterranea
Release date:	March 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Victoria A. Goddard
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-85973-034-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	1-85973-034-5
Barcode:	9781859730348

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