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Women's Work and Chicano Families
Contributor(s): Zavella, Patricia (Author)
ISBN: 0801417309     ISBN-13: 9780801417306
Publisher: Cornell University Press
OUR PRICE:   $59.35  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 1987
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
Dewey: 305.436
LCCN: 87005245
Series: Essential Elements for Choir
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 214 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
 
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Publisher Description:

At the time Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley was published, little research had been done on the relationship between the wage labor and household labor of Mexican American women. Drawing on revisionist social theories relating to Chicano family structure as well as on feminist theory, Patricia Zavella paints a compelling picture of the Chicano women who worked in northern California's fruit and vegetable canneries. Her book combines social history, shop floor ethnography, and in-depth interviews to explore the links between Chicano family life and gender inequality in the labor market.


Contributor Bio(s): Zavella, Patricia: - Patricia Zavella is Professor and Chair of Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of I'm Neither Here nor There Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty and coeditor of Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands A Reader.