Womens Place In The Andes

Author : Florence E. Babb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520970411
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Place in the Andes written by Florence E. Babb and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify currents in feminist anthropology and activism. Babb argues that decolonizing feminism and engaging more fully with interlocutors from the South will lead to a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn. This book’s novel approach goes on to set forth a collaborative methodology for rethinking gender and race in the Americas.

Author : Hannah Kimberley
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250084008
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Place Is at the Top written by Hannah Kimberley and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Annie Smith Peck, an early feminist and accomplished adventurer who changed the rules for women.

Author : Susan C. Bourque
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472021532
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Andes written by Susan C. Bourque and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilar is a capable, energetic merchant in the small, Peruvian highland settlement of Chiuchin. Genovena, an unmarried day laborer in the same town, faces an impoverished old age without children to support her. Carmen is the wife of a prosperous farmer in the agricultural community of Mayobamba, eleven thousand feet above Chiuchin in the Andean sierra. Mariana, a madre soltera—single mother—without a husband or communal land of her own, also resides in Mayobamba. These lives form part of an interlocking network that the authors carefully examine in Women of the Andes. In doing so, they explore the riddle of women’s structural subordination by analyzing the social, political, and economic realities of life in Peru. They examine theoretical explanations of sexual hierarchies against the backdrop of life histories. The result is a study that pinpoints the mechanisms perpetuating sexual repression and traces the impact of social change and national policy on women’s lives.

Author : Susan Elizabeth Benner
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826318251
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire from the Andes written by Susan Elizabeth Benner and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South American women authors look at the female experience.

Author : Karen Andes
Publisher : Perigee Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780399518997
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Book of Strength written by Karen Andes and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique book that offers a new treatment of female empowerment, blending spiritual and physical strength in the tradition of Deepak Chopra's New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. It is the first book to combine the best of successful self-esteem books such as Gloria Steinem's Revolution from Within and fitness books such as those by Joyce Vedral.

Author : Kim MacQuarrie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143916892X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Death in the Andes written by Kim MacQuarrie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains. The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Che Guevara, Pablo Escobar, Butch Cassidy, Thor Heyerdahl, and others. He describes living on the floating islands of Lake Titcaca. He introduces us to a Patagonian woman who is the last living speaker of her language. We meet the woman who cared for the wounded Che Guevara just before he died, the police officer who captured cocaine king Pablo Escobar, the dancer who hid Shining Path guerrilla Abimael Guzman, and a man whose grandfather witnessed the death of Butch Cassidy. Collectively these stories tell us something about the spirit of South America. What makes South America different from other continents—and what makes the cultures of the Andes different from other cultures found there? How did the capitalism introduced by the Spaniards change South America? Why did Shining Path leader Guzman nearly succeed in his revolutionary quest while Che Guevara in Bolivia was a complete failure in his? “MacQuarrie writes smartly and engagingly and with…enthusiasm about the variety of South America’s life and landscape” (The New York Times Book Review) in Life and Death in the Andes. Based on the author’s own deeply observed travels, “this is a well-written, immersive work that history aficionados, particularly those with an affinity for Latin America, will relish” (Library Journal).

Author : Amy Lind
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271045744
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Paradoxes written by Amy Lind and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its &“free market&” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country&’s poor, including women&’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women&’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women&’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and &“unfinished&” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women&’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist &“issue networks&” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.

Author : Brooke Larson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316473
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes written by Brooke Larson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Major compilation of historical and anthropological articles focuses on the nature of markets and exchange structures in the Andes. Prominent scholars explore Andean participation in the European market structure, the influence of migration in changing ethnic boundaries and spheres of exchange, and the politics of market exchange during the colonial period. Larson's introduction places articles within the context of Andean economic systems, while Harris concludes with an appreciation of the relationships between mestizo and indigenous ethnic identities in the context of market relations. Both introduction and conclusion lend a greater coherence to this carefully-crafted and monumental volume"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author : Karen Andes
Publisher : Perigee Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780399523724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Book of Power written by Karen Andes and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic approach to building inner strength through diet, exercise and relaxation. The author covers in detail the positive effects of physical strength on the heart, mind and spirit and shows women how they may release the gifts of inner strength that they possess.

Author : Mary Weismantel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226891542
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cholas and Pishtacos written by Mary Weismantel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society. Cholas and Pishtacos are two provocative characters from South American popular culture—a sensual mixed-race woman and a horrifying white killerwho show up in everything from horror stories and dirty jokes to romantic novels and travel posters. In this elegantly written book, these two figures become vehicles for an exploration of race, sex, and violence that pulls the reader into the vivid landscapes and lively cities of the Andes. Weismantel's theory of race and sex begins not with individual identity but with three forms of social and economic interaction: estrangement, exchange, and accumulation. She maps the barriers that separate white and Indian, male and female-barriers that exist not in order to prevent exchange, but rather to exacerbate its inequality. Weismantel weaves together sources ranging from her own fieldwork and the words of potato sellers, hotel maids, and tourists to classic works by photographer Martin Chambi and novelist José María Arguedas. Cholas and Pishtacos is also an enjoyable and informative introduction to a relatively unknown region of the Americas.