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Silent Looms

Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2000

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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 entrepreneurial opportunities, Ehlers convincingly demonstrates that development and commercial growth in the region have benefited men at the expense of women.

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Tracy Bachrach Ehlers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Foreword

    ix
    June Nash
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    Acknowledgments

    xiii
    Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
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    Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition

    xvii
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    Introduction to the Revised Edition

    xix
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    1. Introduction

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    2. Ethnographic Sketch

    26
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    3. Female Labor and the Family

    60
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    4. Female Traders

    96
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    5. Cottage Industry

    124
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    6. Women and Men

    151
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    7. Women and Social Change

    180
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    References

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    Index

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9780292745100
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https://doi.org/10.7560/721036
eBook ISBN: 9780292745100
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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