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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825982303321

Titolo

The gendered worlds of Latin American women workers : from household and factory to the union hall and ballot box / / John D. French and Daniel James, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1997

ISBN

1-322-06746-5

0-8223-9840-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Collana

Comparative and international working-class history

Altri autori (Persone)

FrenchJohn D

JamesDaniel <1948->

Disciplina

331.4/098

331.4098

Soggetti

Women - Latin America - Economic conditions

Working class women - Latin America - Economic conditions

Women - Latin America - Identity

Feminism - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Squaring the circle / John D. French and Daniel James -- Tales told out on the borderlands / Daniel James -- Women workers in the cathedrals of corned beef / Mirta Zaida Lobato -- Unskilled worker, skilled housewife / Barbara Weinstein -- My duty as a woman / Theresa R. Veccia -- Talking, fighting, flirting / Ann Farnsworth-Alvear -- Women and working-class mobilization in postwar São Paulo, 1945-1948 / John D. French with Mary Lynn Pedersen Cluff -- Loneliness of working-class feminism / Deborah Levenson-Estrada -- Morality and good habits / Thomas Miller Klubock -- Household patrones / Heidi Tinsman -- Oral history, identity formation, and working-class mobilization / John D. French and Daniel James

Sommario/riassunto

"Collection of well-researched articles effectively combines gender history and labor history and includes specialized studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala. Each article is thoroughly footnoted, revealing broadly-based sources including interviews, memoirs, and government publications, as well as authors' extensive



reading in comparable published studies and theoretical literature. Editors also contribute introductory and concluding essays rich in historiographical and methodological insights"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.