ABSTRACT

Situated Lives brings together the most important recent feminist and critical research that situates gender in relationship to the historical and material circumstances where gender, race, class and sexual orientation intersect and shape everyday interaction. Contributors include: Barbara Babcock, Jean Comaroff, Sarah Franklin, Faye Ginsburg, Matthew Gutmann, Faye V. Harrison, Louise Lamphere, Ellen Lewin, Jos^'e Lim^'on, Iris Lopez, Emily Martin, Mary Moran, Kirin Narayan, Aihwa Ong, Devon G. Pe^~na, Beatriz Pesquera, Helena Ragon^'e, Rayna Rapp, Judith Rollins, Leslie Salzinger, Denise Segura, Carol Stack, Ann Stoler, Donald D. Stull, Brett Williams, Patricia Zavella.

part 1|62 pages

The Power of Representation

chapter 2|20 pages

Feminist Insider Dilemmas

Constructing Ethnic Identity with “Chicana” Informants

chapter 3|21 pages

Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque

Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses

part 2|89 pages

Reproducing the Body

chapter 4|14 pages

The Egg and the Sperm

How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles

chapter 5|11 pages

Making Sense of Missed Conceptions

Anthropological Perspectives on Unexplained Infertility

chapter 6|18 pages

Chasing the Blood Tie

Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Fathers

chapter 7|14 pages

Constructing Amniocentesis

Maternal and Medical Discourses

chapter 8|15 pages

The “Word-Made” Flesh

The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate

chapter 9|15 pages

Agency and Constraint

Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City

part 3|79 pages

Constructing Family

chapter 10|17 pages

Reinventing the South

chapter 11|16 pages

“This Permanent Roommate”

chapter 12|15 pages

“In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon”

The Division of Household Labor

chapter 13|12 pages

The Meanings of Macho

Changing Mexican Male Identities

chapter 14|17 pages

Holding Hands

part 4|118 pages

Consciousness, Transformation, and Resistance at Work

chapter 16|21 pages

Maid by Any Other Name

The Transformation of “Dirty Work” by Central American Immigrants

chapter 17|19 pages

Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs

“You Have to Prove Yourself More”

chapter 18|26 pages

Knock ‘Em Dead

Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant

chapter 19|18 pages

Women's Resistance in the Sunbelt

Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control

chapter 20|16 pages

Spirits of Resistance

part 5|116 pages

Colonizing Gender and Sexuality

chapter 21|27 pages

Making Empire Respectable

The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures

chapter 22|20 pages

The Empire's Old Clothes 1

Fashioning the Colonial Subject

chapter 23|20 pages

Mudwomen and Whitemen

A Meditation on Pueblo Potteries and the Politics of Representation 1

chapter 24|11 pages

Warriors or Soldiers?

Masculinity and Ritual Transvestism in the Liberian Civil War

chapter 25|18 pages

The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment

A View from Jamaica

chapter 26|18 pages

The Mirror of Exploitation