The resources of poverty : women and survival in a Mexican city

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Tables and Figure = xiii
• Preface and Acknowledgments = xv
• 1 The Resources of Poverty: Urban Households, Survival, and Reproduction = 1
• Introduction = 1
• The Urban Household = 2
• The Urban Household and the Labor Market = 6
• Collective Strategies versus Individual Interests = 11
• Social Networks and the Cost of Social Isolation = 16
• The Domestic Cycle or the Temporality of Private Life = 20
• Women and Survival Strategies = 28
• Gender Inequality, Conflicts, Confrontation, and Domestic Violence = 30
• Collective Demands and Political Cooptation = 33
• Methodology = 35
• 2 Guadalajara and Working-class Households: Characteristics and Differences = 39
• Guadalajara in the Context of Latin America = 39
• The City of Contradictions: the Urban Development of Guadalajara = 43
• Characteristics of the Sample Households = 58
• Conclusion = 75
• 3 The Domestic Cycle = 79
• Introduction = 79
• The Domestic Cycle and the Relativity of the Structure = 84
• The Relativity of Poverty = 88
• Occupational Structure and the Domestic Cycle = 97
• Conclusion = 101
• 4 Patterns of Consumption = 103
• Introduction = 103
• Income and Consumption = 109
• The Daily Grind: Patterns of Consumption in Three Households = 115
• Conclusion = 128
• 5 The Household: A Contradictory Unit = 132
• Introduction = 132
• The Basis of Hierarchy = 134
• Women's Work = 136
• Power Relationships: Domination and Subordination = 140
• Violence and Crises: The Permanence of the Household = 142
• Poverty: Constraint to Stay = 145
• Women's Consent: Networks, Support, and Gender Solidarity = 146
• The Role of the Church = 147
• Conclusion = 157
• 6 Working-class Women in Guadalajara = 161
• Introduction = 161
• Women and the Labor Market = 162
• Women's Waged Work and the Domestic Economy = 169
• The Constraints of Domestic Responsibilities on Women's Waged Work = 172
• The Domestic Burden = 174
• Women's Biographies = 177
• Education and Women's Work = 180
• Conclusion = 181
• 7 Single-parent Households = 183
• Introduction = 183
• Case Studies or Single-parent Households = 188
• Conclusion = 210
• 8 The Penalties of Social Isolation = 213
• Introduction = 213
• Social Networks = 215
• The Helpless Poor: A Deviant Case = 220
• Conclusion = 227
• 9 Self-construction, Self-urbanization: Political Cooptation = 229
• Introduction = 229
• Self-construction = 235
• Self-urbanization = 243
• Conclusion = 253
• 10 Summary and Conclusions = 256
• Epilogue = 265
• The Restructuring of Domestic Life = 272
• Concluding Remarks = 275
• References = 278
• Index = 299