Silent Looms

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Central American textile economy
Christ Child
Class Bus
consensual unions
Cottage Industry
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ethnographic fieldwork
Female High School Graduates
female labor
female marianismo
Female Traders
gender relations' paradox
Guatemala City
Guatemalan Woman
Guatemalan women's economic agency
Home Town
Home Work
indigenous women's labor
Knitting Machine
La Casa
La Grandeza
Maya gender roles
October Harvest
Parallel Marriage
patriarchal social structures
Production Schedule
qualitative social research
Socioeconomic Development
Sweater Factories
Tea Pots
Traditional Cottage Industry
Traditional Weaving
Upwardly Mobile Families
Valuable Productive Efforts
Vice Versa
Woman's Proper Sphere
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367287283
  • Weight: 530g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 237mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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"In her book, Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers captures the paradox of gender relations in a society that accords power and authority to men yet leaves the major burden of child care and economic maintenance of the family to women. Most monographs on Maya populations have either ignored women's contributions to the indigenous economy or, when they have included women's work, have ignored the contradiction between patriarchal ideology and observed behavior that is increasingly sharpened by the political and
economic transformations taking place.
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