| Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life Contributor(s): Lamphere, Louise (Editor), Ragone, Helena (Editor), Zavella, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415918073 ISBN-13: 9780415918077 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Utilizing rich ethnographic accounts and first-person narratives, the contributors to this work examine how ordinary people are responding to the complexities of living in today's world. Among the issues discussed are counseling, surrogate motherhood, the abortion debate, and cultural and economic domination in Jamaica and on the U.S.-Mexican border. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 305.3 |
| LCCN: 96-51900 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 7.03" W x 9.96" (1.80 lbs) 502 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Situated Lives brings together the most important recent feminist and critical research that situates gender in relationship to the historical and material circumstances where gender, race, class and sexual orientation intersect and shape everyday interaction. Contributors include: Barbara Babcock, Jean Comaroff, Sarah Franklin, Faye Ginsburg, Matthew Gutmann, Faye V. Harrison, Louise Lamphere, Ellen Lewin, Jos 'e Lim 'on, Iris Lopez, Emily Martin, Mary Moran, Kirin Narayan, Aihwa Ong, Devon G. Pe na, Beatriz Pesquera, Helena Ragon 'e, Rayna Rapp, Judith Rollins, Leslie Salzinger, Denise Segura, Carol Stack, Ann Stoler, Donald D. Stull, Brett Williams, Patricia Zavella. |