Associate Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies

SKIRTS AND POLLERAS Ideologies of Womanhood and the Politics of Resistance in La Paz 19001952
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MOTHERING THE NATION Antonio Diaz Villamils La nina de sus ojos
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DISMEMBERED HOUSES
59

FASHIONING THE NATIONAL SUBJECT Pedagogy Hygiene and Apparel
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THE POLITICS OF HUNGER
158

ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS
203

NOTES
207

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Gender and Modernity is a valuable contribution to our understanding of ethnic and gender relations in Bolivia. Stephenson achieves an original reading of the complex role of the state efforts to maintain their cultural identity and integrity in the face of a design to mask ethnicity. This is a rich book, full of intriguing and original ideas, and a must for students of modernization and social change. (Susan C. Bourque HAHR 2000-08-00)

This is an important feminist/cultural studies reading on the subject of racial formation in Andean Bolivia that has women at its center.... It would be useful for courses such as Latin American women's history, feminist theory, cultural studies, the anthropology of women, gender studies, history of consciousness, and Andean studies. (Guillermo Delgado-P., Director, Latin American and Latino Field Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)