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Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns (Women and Culture Series)
Bourque, Susan C., Warren, Kay Barbara
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Description for Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns (Women and Culture Series)
Paperback. Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences Series: Women & Culture S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 pages of photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Pilar is a capable, energetic merchant in the small, Peruvian highland settlement of Chiuchin. Genovena, an unmarried day laborer in the same town, faces an impoverished old age without children to support her. Carmen is the wife of a prosperous farmer in the agricultural community of Mayobamba, eleven thousand feet above Chiuchin in the Andean sierra. Mariana, a madre soltera—single mother—without a husband or communal land of her own, also resides in Mayobamba.
These lives form part of an interlocking network that the authors carefully examine in Women of the Andes. In doing so, they explore the riddle of ... Read more
Pilar is a capable, energetic merchant in the small, Peruvian highland settlement of Chiuchin. Genovena, an unmarried day laborer in the same town, faces an impoverished old age without children to support her. Carmen is the wife of a prosperous farmer in the agricultural community of Mayobamba, eleven thousand feet above Chiuchin in the Andean sierra. Mariana, a madre soltera—single mother—without a husband or communal land of her own, also resides in Mayobamba.
These lives form part of an interlocking network that the authors carefully examine in Women of the Andes. In doing so, they explore the riddle of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Women & Culture S.
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472063307
SKU
V9780472063307
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