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Sellers and Servants: Working Women in Lima, Peru

by Ximena Bunster
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780897891714
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Praeger
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 267
  • Original Price: GBP 26.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 367 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Women's Studies, Labor & Industrial Relations, and Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General

Sellers and Servants is a welcome addition to research on a neglected subject, that of poverty-stricken Peruvian women whose alternatives for subsistence are few and cruel: to be a servant or to peddle goods in the markets and streets of Lima. Contemporary Sociology

A tour de force . . . Bunster and Chaney set out to tap an inner world of feelings, values, and significance' among poor migrant women in Lima. . . . Using an innovative talking pictures' interview technique, the authors delve into the lives of these poorest of the poor' revealing simultaneously their suffering and their strength.
Women's Review of Books

Ximena Bunster directs her own research center on women in Santiago, Chile. Elsa Chaney teaches and works in the field of comparative politics, centered around women in development concerns in the Caribbean, South America, and Africa.

XIMENA BUNSTER, directs her own research center on women, in Santiago. Dr. Bunster's research and writing cover such topics as Latin American society and culture underdevelopment, working conditions of women and children in developing societies, peasant societies and the anthropology/sociology of women and of human rights.

ELSA M. CHANEY has divided her working life between teaching and practical work in the field, centered around women in development concerns in the Caribbean, South America and Africa. Her field work in Peru for this book was preceded by an earlier stay in that country, where she interviewed 167 women active in local and national politics for her book Supermadre: Women in Politics in Peru and Chile.

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