GENDER, FAMILY AND WORK IN NAPLES by Victoria A. Goddard ( 9781859730393 )

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GENDER, FAMILY AND WORK IN NAPLES

By:

Victoria A. Goddard

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

1 March, 1996

Series:

Mediterranea Series v. 4

Pages:

264

Description:

Examining Mediterranean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline's traditional focus on honour and shame in small communities, and argues that gender and sexuality are central to the constitution of personal and social identities.

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Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline's traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with material processes in the constitution of personal and social identities. In this ethnographic account of the labour market in Naples, the author shows how cultural definitions of gender can be used to investigate broad social processes. Scarce stable employment in the area means that household members are forced to diversify their economic activities in order to survive. Petty entrepreneurship is an option which is almost exclusively available to men. Women, who are either unable or unwilling to obtain factory work, are generally confined to the status of outworkers. The author emphasises that individual choices cannot be attributed solely to economic opportunities but that concepts of selfhood, gender identity and the symbolic value of female sexuality are also important.

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Berg Publishers

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