Gender's Place

Preface: On Feminist Ethnography of Latin America; R.Behar Introduction: A desalambrar: Unfencing Gender's Place in Research on Latin America; J.Hurtig , R.Montoya , L.J.Frazier PART 1: LANGUAGES AND PRACTICES OF GENDERED KNOWLEDGE IN PARTICULAR PLACES Debating Women: Gendered Lessons in a Venezuelan Classroom; J.Hurtig To Act Like a Man: Masculinity, Resistance, and Authority in the Ecuadorian Andes; B.Lyons Women's Sexuality, Knowledge, and Agency in Rural Nicaragua; R.Montoya del Solar PART 2: GENDER'S PLACE IN CHALLENGING AND REPRODUCING INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGIES Forging Democracy and Locality: Democratization, Mental Health, and Reparations in Iquique, Chile; L.J.Frazier What the Strong Owe to the Weak: Rationality, Domestic Violence, and Governability in Nineteenth Century Mexico; A.Alonso The Racial-Moral Politics of Place: Mestizas and Intellectuals in Turn-of the-Century Peru; M.De la Cadena Placing Gender and Ethnicity on the Bodies of Indigenous Women and in the Work of Bolivian Intellectuals; V.M.Ortiz PART 3: GENDER IN MOVEMENT(S) Engendering Leadership: Indigenous Women Leaders in the Ecuadorian Andes; E.Cervone Latinas at the Border: the Common Ground of Economic Displacements and Breakthroughs; V.M.Ortiz Making a Scence: Travestis and Gendered Politics of Space in Porto Alegre, Brazil; C.H.Klein By Night, a Street Rite: 'Public' Women of the Night in the Streets of Mexico City (An Ethnographic Essay); M.Lamas CRITICAL COMMENTARIES Against Marianismo; M.Navarro Understanding Gender in Latin America; S.Montesino Local/Global: A View from Geography; A.Cravey POSTSCRIPT Postscript: Gender in Place and Culture; J.Nash