Situated Lives Gender and Culture in Everyday Life

Introduction - Louise Lamphere, Patricia Zavella, Helena Ragoné
Part I: The Power of Representation: Gendered Ethnography in Practice
1. How Native is a Native Anthropologist Kirin Narayan
2. Feministic Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants - Patricia Zavella
3. Carne, Carnales and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses - José Limón
Part II
4. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Women's Roles - Emily Martin
5. Making Sense of Missed Conceptions - Sarah Franklin
6. Surrogates, Fathers, and Adoptive Mothers - Helena Ragoné
7. Constructing Aminocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses - Raynna Rapp
8. The World Made Flesh: The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate - Faye Ginsburg
9. Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City - Iris Lopez
Part III: Constructing Family: Creating Household and Community
10. Reinventing the South in Upscaling Downtown - Brett Williams
11. This Permanent Roommate - Ellen Lewin
12. In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon: The Division of Household Labor - Beatriz Pesquera
13. The Meanings of Macho: Changing Mexican Male Identities - Matthew Gutmann
14. Holding Hands - Carol Stack
PartIV: Consciousness, transformation, and Resistance at Work
15. Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, Resentiment - Judith Rollins
16. A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of Dirty Work by Central American Immigrants - Leslie Salzinger
17. Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs: You Have to Prove Yourself More - Denise Segura
18. Knock 'em Dead: Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant - Donald D. Stull
19. Women's Resistance in the Sunbelt: Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control - Louise Lamphere and Patricia Zavella
20. Spirits of Resistance - Aihwa Ong
Part V: Colonizing Gender and Sexuality: Representation and Practice
21. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures - Ann Stoler
22. The Emperor's Old Clothes: Fashioning the Colonial Subject - Jean Comaroff
23. Mudwomen and Whitemen - A Meditation on Pueblo Potteries and the Politics of Representation - Barbara Babcock
24. Warriors or Soldiers?: Masculinity and Ritual Transvestism in the Liberian Civil War - Mary Moran
25. The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica - Faye V. Harrison
26. The Mirror of Exploitation - Devon G. Peña
Index

Biography

Louis Lamphere is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and is author of From Working Daughters to Working Mothers. Helena Ragone teaches anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and is the author of Surrogate Motherhood. Patricia Zavella is Professor and Chair of the Community Studies Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is author of Women's Work and Chicano Families.

"...conceptually brilliant, well organized, readable, refreshing and most importantly in this age of post-post-modern pseudo-social scientific babble understandable. Social Science and MEdicine, 52, 2001, pg. 493, Norah A. Schwartz."
"With this pathbreaking new volume, Lamphere, Ragoné and Zavella have gone a long way to putting anthropology back together again. Its twenty-six essays take up the local impacts of global capitalism and post-colonial social structures on women's and men's bodies, their families, and work lives. The essays retain anthropology's traditional focus on those far from the centers of wealth and power, foreground the creativity of their struggles in a generally hostile global climate, and deal thoughtfully with the relationships anthropologists have to the people we write about." -- Karen Brodkin, UCLA
"The ethnographic studies in this volume liven up and add a specificity that is often lacking to theoretical analysis. The book is a valuable resource, integrating and demonstrating the insights of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and political economy. Sampling its diverse contents can only enhance our understanding of the materiality of cultures and the individuals who shape and are shaped by them. Isis, Volume 91, Number 2, June 2000 The breadth of this work makes it particularly beneficial for introductory courses on women's issues." -- Journal of Women's history
"With this pathbreaking new volume, Lamphere, Ragoné and Zavella have gone a long way to putting anthropology back together again. Its twenty-six essays take up the local impacts of global capitalism and post-colonial social structures on women's and men's bodies, their families, and work lives. The essays retain anthropology's traditional focus on those far from the centers of wealth and power, foreground the creativity of their struggles in a generally hostile global climate, and deal thoughtfully with the relationships anthropologists have to the people we write about." -- Karen Brodkin, UCLA
"The breadth of this work makes it particularly beneficial for introductory courses on women's issues." -- Journal of Women's history