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Author Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965- author.

Title Hierarchies of care : girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru / Krista E. Van Vleet
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps
Series Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
Illinois scholarship online
Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Illinois scholarship online
Contents Young mothers, moral experience, and the politics of care -- Dimensions of precarity and possibility in Peru -- Shaping (modern) mothers in Palomitáy -- Dynamic selves, uncertain desires -- Making images, (re)visioning mothers (a photography workshop) -- Moral dialogues, caring dilemmas (a theater workship) -- Conclusion
Summary Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers a rich ethnography of a group of young mothers in residential care in Peru. She pays particular attention to the moral entanglements that emerge via people's efforts to provide care amid the inequalities and insecurities of today's Peru. State and nonstate participants involved in the women's intimate lives influence how the women see themselves as mothers, students, and citizens. Both deserving of care and responsible for caring for others, the young women must navigate practices interwoven with a range of racial, gendered, and class hierarchies. Groundbreaking and original, Hierarchies of Care highlights the moral engagement of young women seeking to understand themselves and their place in society in the presence of circumstances that are both precarious and full of hope
Notes Previously issued in print: 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 11, 2020)
Subject Teenage mothers -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Mother and child -- Peru -- Cuzco
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Mother and child
Social conditions
Teenage mothers -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Cuzco (Peru) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Peru -- Cuzco
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252051647
0252051645