Florence E Babb: 4 books
Women's Place in the Andes
Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify...
After Revolution
Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) initiated a broad program of social transformation to improve the situation of the working class and poor, women, and other non-elite groups through agrarian reform, restructured urban employment, and wide access to health care, education, and social services....
Between Field and Cooking Pot
The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
From reviews of the first edition: "Between Field and Cooking Pot offers details of the daily lives of marketwomen in the central Andean departmental capital of Huaraz.... A welcome addition to studies of women and international development, this book contains a wealth of firsthand material,...
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America
Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies...