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Gender, Family and Work in Naples (Paperback, New)
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Gender, Family and Work in Naples (Paperback, New)
Series: Mediterranea
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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.
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