POLS 3160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Breadwinner Model, Market (Place), Ladino People
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Enloe pattern of very broad phenomena and providing examples. Carry"s article market place around the turn of the century in guatemala. The structure of the economies and women"s behaviour in the context. If women"s labour is cheap it is made cheap through deliberative processes. Imagining anything as natural takes it out of the realm of politics (pg. Having this as an ideal maintains the pattern. The expectation that women won"t be as serious of their careers because they will take on the work of the family or that her husband is going to be the one who will be responsible for earning. Strategic gender interest assumes that there are gender goals. Article: approaching the topic of women and markets on a different levels, talking about actual market places in guatemala, looks at it as a hub of economic and social life. Governments start to focus on modernization, including the economy.