Women of the Praia : : Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community / / Sally Cooper Cole.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Cole, Sally Cooper,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables and Maps -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Vila Cha -- CHAPTER 2. A Fisherwoman's Story -- CHAPTER 3. The Maritime Household -- CHAPTER 4. Women Work at Sea and on Land -- CHAPTER 5. Work and Shame: the Social Construction of Gender -- CHAPTER 6. Inveja: Women Divided? -- CHAPTER 7. Fisherwomen and Factory Workers: New Work for Women -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index