Silent Looms : : Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town /

Silent Looms : : Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town / / Tracy Bachrach Ehlers.

Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatepéquez. Revisiting many of the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her earlier hopeful assessment of women's e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Ehlers, Tracy Bachrach,
MitwirkendeR:
Bachrach Ehlers, Tracy,
Nash, June,
TeilnehmendeR:
Nash, June.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2000
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition
  • Introduction to the Revised Edition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Ethnographic Sketch
  • 3. Female Labor and the Family
  • 4. Female Traders
  • 5. Cottage Industry
  • 6. Women and Men
  • 7. Women and Social Change
  • References
  • Index

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