Title Making market women : gender, religion, and work in Ecuador / Jill DeTemple

Published Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : Blessed are the cheese makers? Catholic liberation, social capital, women, and neoliberalism in contemporary Ecuador -- Why Catholic women make cheese -- Reproducing women : gendered social capital in local contexts -- Marketing the domestic church -- Las Juanes : charismatic Catholicism, women, and the market in Chillanes -- "We are also outside" : religious and gender identities when development fails -- Conclusion : Virgins in the clouds -- Appendix Summary "Making Market Women tells of the initial success, and later failure, of a liberationist Catholic women's cooperative in central Ecuador. Jill DeTemple argues that when gender and religious identities are capitalized, they are made vulnerable. Using archival and ethnographic methods, she shares the story of the women involved in the cooperative, producing cheese and knitted goods for local markets, and places their stories in the larger context of both the cooperative and the community. DeTemple explores the impact of gender roles, the perception of women, the growing middle class, and the changing mode of Catholicism in their community. Although the success may have been due to group cohesion to the identity of Catholic women, the failure of the cooperative left many women less sure of these identities. They keep their Catholic identity but blame the institutional church in some ways for the failure and are less confident in their ability as women to compete successfully in market economies. Because DeTemple examines not only the effects of gender and religion on development but also the effects of development, successful or unsuccessful, on the identities of those involved, this book will interest scholars of international development, religious studies, Latin American studies, anthropology, and women's studies"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2020) Subject Virgen de las Nubes Cooperative -- History Catholic Church -- Ecuador -- Chillanes -- History Catholic Church Women in cooperative societies -- Ecuador Catholic women -- Ecuador -- Chillanes Liberation theology -- Ecuador -- Case studies Economic development -- Ecuador -- Case studies Social entrepreneurship -- Ecuador -- Case studies HISTORY / Latin America / South America Catholic women Economic development Liberation theology Social entrepreneurship Women in cooperative societies Chillanes (Ecuador) -- Church history Ecuador Ecuador -- Chillanes Genre/Form Electronic books Case studies Church history History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019054897 ISBN 0268107475 9780268107482 0268107483 9780268107475

Other Titles Gender, religion, and work in Ecuador

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