This collection brings together key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America in order to explore the ways that 'place' understood both geographically and metaphorically can serve as a key vehicle for analyzing the cultural, social, and historical specificity of gender relations and ideologies. Like Dorothy Hodgson's volume, Gendered Modernities, the book seeks to unite ethnographic specificity with theoretical cohesion in a way that demonstrates the unique contribution that anthropology can make to gender and area studies. ANA MARIA ALONSO Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona-Tucson, USA RUTH BEHAR Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, USA EMMA CERVONE Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, USA ALTHA J. CRAVEY Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, USA MARISOL DE LA CADENA Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA CHARLES H. KLEIN Health Program Planner at the HIV Prevention Section of the San Fransisco Department of Public Health, USA MARTA LAMAS Studied Anthropology at the Escuela National de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico and is the Editor of the Journal, Debate Feminista BARRY J. LYONS Anthropologist at Wayne State University, Michigan, USA SONIA MONTECINO Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Genero of the Universidad de Chile, Chile JUNE NASH Has carried out anthrop ological research on community, family and gender roles and the impact of globalization processes in Mexico, Bolivia and the United States MARYSA NAVARRO Charles Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA VICTOR ORTIZ Teaches at Northeastern Illinois University and is Coordinator of its Mexican/Caribbean Studies program SUSAN J. PAULSON Spent 12 years in South America developing graduate programs and doing field research

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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 Ibdigenous 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;