Louis Lamphere is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and is author of From WorkingDaughters to Working Mothers.Helena Ragone teaches anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and is the author of Surrogate Motherhood.PatriciaZavella is Professor and Chair of the Community Studies Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is author of Women's Work and Chicano Families.

"...conceptually brilliant, well organized, readable, refreshing and most importantly in this age of post-post-modern pseudo-social scientific babble understandable. Social Science and MEdicine, 52, 2001,pg. 493, Norah A. Schwartz.""With this pathbreaking new volume, Lamphere, Ragoné and Zavella have gone a long way to putting anthropology back together again. Its twenty-six essays take up the local impacts of global capitalism and post-colonial social structures on women's and men's bodies, their families, and work lives. The essays retain anthropology's traditional focus on those far from the centers of wealth and power, foreground the creativity of their struggles in a generally hostile global climate, and deal thoughtfully with the relationships anthropologists have to the people we write about." -- Karen Brodkin, UCLA"The ethnographic studies in this volume liven up and add a specificity that is often lacking to theoretical analysis. The book is a valuable resource, integrating and demonstrating the insights of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and political economy. Sampling its diverse contents can only enhance our understanding of the materiality of cultures and the individuals who shape and are shaped by them. Isis, Volume 91, Number 2, June 2000 The breadth of this work makes it particularly beneficial for introductory courses on women's issues." -- Journal of Women's history"With this pathbreaking new volume, Lamphere, Ragoné and Zavella have gone a long way to putting anthropology back together again. Its twenty-six essays take up the local impacts of global capitalism and post-colonial social structures on women's and men's bodies, their families, and work lives. The essays retain anthropology's traditional focus on those far from the centers of wealth and power, foreground the creativity of their struggles in a generally hostile global climate, and deal thoughtfully with the relationships anthropologists have to the people we write about." -- Karen Brodkin, UCLA"The breadth of this work makes it particularly beneficial for introductory courses on women's issues." -- Journalof Women's history

• Introduction - Louise Lamphere, Patricia Zavella, Helena Ragoné Part I: The Power of Representation: Gendered Ethnography in Practice 1. How Native is a Native Anthropologist Kirin Narayan2. Feministic Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants - Patricia Zavella3. Carne, Carnales and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses - José LimónPart II 4. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Women's Roles - Emily Martin5. Making Sense of Missed Conceptions - Sarah Franklin6. Surrogates, Fathers, and Adoptive Mothers - Helena Ragoné7. Constructing Aminocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses - Raynna Rapp8. The World Made Flesh: The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate - Faye Ginsburg9. Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City - Iris LopezPart III: Constructing Family: Creating Household and Community 10. Reinventing the South in Upscaling Downtown - Brett Williams11. This Permanent Roommate - Ellen Lewin12. In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon: The Division of Household Labor - Beatriz Pesquera13. The Meanings of Macho: Changing Mexican Male Identities - Matthew Gutmann14. Holding Hands - Carol StackPartIV: Consciousness, transformation, and Resistance at Work 15. Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, Resentiment - Judith Rollins16. A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of Dirty Work by Central American Immigrants - Leslie Salzinger17. Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs: You Have to Prove Yourself More - Denise Segura18. Knock 'em Dead: Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant - Donald D. Stull19. Women's Resistance in the Sunbelt: Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control - Louise Lamphere and Patricia Zavella20. Spirits of Resistance - Aihwa OngPart V: Colonizing Gender and Sexuality: Representation and Practice 21. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures - Ann Stoler22. The Emperor's Old Clothes: Fashioning the Colonial Subject - Jean Comaroff23. Mudwomen and Whitemen - A Meditation on Pueblo Potteries and the Politics of Representation - Barbara Babcock24. Warriors or Soldiers?: Masculinity and Ritual Transvestism in the Liberian Civil War - Mary Moran25. The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica - Faye V. Harrison26. The Mirror of Exploitation - Devon G. PeñaIndex