Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia / Edition 1

by Lesley Gill

Overview

-Addresses the issue of inequalities between women that are rooted in, but not completely delineated by, class and ethnicity. . . . This book develops a deeply nuanced and insightful understanding of the oppression of women. -Gerald Sider -City University of New York

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231096478
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/28/1994
Pages:	175
Product dimensions:	6.07(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

Editorial Reviews

Examines the relationships between Aymara-speaking domestic servants and their upperclass women employers in La Paz from 1930 to the late 1980s, to investigate how the general subordination of women can be understood in the context of class, race, and ethnic inequality. Argues that class, gender, and ethnicity are inseparable, and that class relationships are always articulated in gender- and ethnic-specific ways. Paper edition (09647-X, $15. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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