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Author_Victoria A. Goddard
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Basso
Cassa Integrazione
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Census
Christian Democrat Party
Civil Society
Dense
economic activities
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female outwork employment
Follow
gender identity
gendered economic survival strategies
gendered labour division
IMF
ISTAT
Kinsman
labour market
Large Family
Marital Continuity
Married Women
Mediterranean anthropology
Midday
Mother Son Relationship
Naples
Neapolitan Culture
Neapolitan Identity
Political Functionality
Political Parties
Postwar
qualitative ethnography
Shoe Trade
southern Italian society
symbolic value
Unified Italian State
urban marginality studies
White Wedding
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781859730393
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Victoria A. Goddard Goldsmiths College,University of London
