Research Catalog

Title

The myth of the male breadwinner : women and industrialization in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa.

Author

Safa, Helen Icken

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.

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Description

xvi, 208 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Comparative sociohistorical study examines interplay of the economy and gender relationships in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Offers extended treatment of the impact of Operation Bootstrap on Puerto Rican women and gender relationships, the impact on women of the Dominican Republic's economic crisis and export manufacturing option of the 1980s, and the development of mass organizations for women in Cuba"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Series Statement

Conflict and social change series

Uniform Title

• Anthropology online.
• Conflict and social change series.

Subject

• Börngen, ..
• Geschichte 1950-1991
• Women > Employment > Puerto Rico
• Women > Employment > Dominican Republic
• Women > Employment > Cuba
• Women > Puerto Rico > Social conditions
• Women > Dominican Republic > Social conditions
• Women > Cuba > Social conditions

Genre/Form

• photograph.
• photographie.
• fotografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Gender and industrialization in the Caribbean basin -- The male breadwinner and women's wage labor -- Women workers and the rise and decline of Puerto Rico's operation bootstrap -- The Dominican Republic: export manufacturing and the economic crisis -- Cuba: revolution and gender inequality -- Conclusion: economic restructuring and gender subordination.

ISBN

• 0813312116 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0813312124 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94047478^

OCLC

• 32243022
• SCSB-9923215

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library