Five The Political Economy of Tropes, Culture, and Masculinity Inside an Electronics Factory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. One Introduction 1
5. I. Sixteenth-Century Conquests (1521–1598) and Their Postcolonial Border Legacies
6. Two The Invention of Borderlands Geography 13
7. Three The Problem of Color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico Border 47
8. II. Culture, Class, and Gender in Late-Twentieth-Century Ciudad Juárez
9. Four Maquiladoras, Gender, and Culture Change 65
10. Five The Political Economy of Tropes, Culture, and Masculinity Inside an Electronics Factory 91
11. Six Border Inspections 115
12. Seven Culture, Class, and Union Politics 151
13. Eight Women, Men, and “Gender” in Feminist Anthropology 185
14. III. Alternating Imaginings
15. Nine Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis 211
16. Epilogue 233
17. Notes 249
18. Bibliography 277
19. Permissions Credits 303
20. Index 305