Hierarchies of Care : Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru /

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Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers a rich ethnography of a group of young mothers in residential care in Peru. She pays particular attention to the moral entanglements that emerge via people's efforts to provide care amid the inequalities and insecurit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Teenage mothers > Social conditions
Social conditions
Mother and child
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Mere et enfant > Perou > Cuzco.
Mother and child > Peru > Cuzco.
Teenage mothers > Peru > Cuzco > Social conditions > 21st century.
Peru > Cuzco
Cuzco (Peru) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Young mothers, moral experience, and the politics of care
  • Dimensions of precarity and possibility in Peru
  • Shaping (modern) mothers in Palomitáy
  • Dynamic selves, uncertain desires
  • Making images, (re)visioning mothers (a photography workshop)
  • Moral dialogues, caring dilemmas (a theater workship)
  • Conclusion.

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