Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: The present, the past, and patriarchy
  • National dilemmas : the specter of liberal individualism in Ecuador
  • Making Ecuadorians? Indian child-men and the abolition of tribute
  • Garcianismo : patriarchy and paradoxical Indian-state relations
  • Liberalism : the marriage of democracy and patriarchy?
  • Alternative patriarchy : gender relations among indigenous peasants
  • Family matters : gender and social control on haciendas
  • Gendered foundations : contradictions in Indian-state relations.