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

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 cultur...

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