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Class Stratification and Cooperative Production Among Rural Women in Central Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Claudia B. Isaac
Claudia B. Isaac*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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This research note investigates class tension between rural women in the context of a grassroots women's development project in the village of Guadalupe in the Mexican state of Querétaro. These tensions affected the cooperative's internal dynamics, economic choices, and inevitably its lack of success. My study found these class tensions to be gendered in that they were manifestations of patriarchy as well as dependent capitalism.

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Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 123 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press

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Research for this project was supported by grants from the Organization of American States, the Rockefeller Humanities and Residence Program at the University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), and the Women's Studies Research Scholar Program at the University of New Mexico. An earlier version was presented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the 1993 meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning; it also appeared as a 1993 SIROW Working Paper. The author is grateful for helpful comments from many persons but would especially like to thank Susan Tiano and the LARR anonymous reviewers for their valuable insights on this version.

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