Women of the praia work and lives in a portuguese coastal community

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Combining firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal with cultural and economic analysis, this work radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean.



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 cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean. Her very different strategy--a focus on women as workers--reflects the Portuguese women's own definition of themselves and allows them the strong, resonant voice that is the goal of both the new ethnography and feminist scholarship. From this new perspective, Cole proposes an important critique of the dominant paradigm of southern European gender relations as being embedded in the code of honor and shame. Covering the Salazar years, as well as the period since the 1974 Revolution, Cole shows that fisherwomen of the past enjoyed greater autonomy in work and social relations than do their daughters and granddaughters, who live in a context of increasing commoditization and industrialization. Central to this account is an examination of the changing structure and role of the household as economic production moved to the factory.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 oktober 1991

Aantal pagina's: 208

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Sally Cooper Cole

Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 153 mm

Product hoogte: 14 mm

Product lengte: 234 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 153 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 14 mm

Verpakking lengte: 234 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 307 g

EAN: 9780691028620

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