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Celibacy
Child care
Competition
Concelho
Cultural hegemony
Division of labour
Domestic worker
Economic development
Emigration
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Ethnography
Factory
Fertilizer
Firewood
Fisherman
Fishery
Fishing
Fresh Fish
Fresh water
Gender identity
Gender role
Gender studies
Gender systems
Household
Housewife
Human female sexuality
Ideology
Income
Industrialisation
Laundry
Legitimacy (family law)
Literature
Male dominance (BDSM)
Marriage
Meal
My Child
My Father
Oppositional culture
Parish register
Peasant
Premarital sex
Residence
Sardine
Seaweed
Self-image
Separate spheres
Skirt
Social class
Social construction of gender difference
Social constructionism
Social reality
Social relation
Social status
Social stratification
Socioeconomic status
Spouse
Tax
Vegetable
Vergonha
Vila do Conde
Virginity
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- ISBN 9780691028620
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal. Skillfully combining these life stories with cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean. Her very different strategy--a focus on women as workers--reflects the Portuguese women's own definition of themselves and allows them the strong, resonant voice that is the goal of both the new ethnography and feminist scholarship. From this new perspective, Cole proposes an important critique of the dominant paradigm of southern European gender relations as being embedded in the code of honor and shame. Covering the Salazar years, as well as the period since the 1974 Revolution, Cole shows that fisherwomen of the past enjoyed greater autonomy in work and social relations than do their daughters and granddaughters, who live in a context of increasing commoditization and industrialization.
Central to this account is an examination of the changing structure and role of the household as economic production moved to the factory.
