Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia

by Lesley Gill

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This examination of female domestic service concentrates on the mistress-servant relationship across a 50-year period in Bolivia, in order to understand why a dominant class of women hires others to carry out domestic duties. Within this broader context, the author explores female domestic service through oral histories with mistresses and servants, court cases and interviews. She explores how gender and ethnicity are mediated by class position and historical experience, and how changing power relations have both sustained and altered social distinctions.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:023109647X

ISBN13:9780231096478

Release Date:April 1994

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:175 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia

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