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Summary:

"Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas. They endeavor to create a 'good life' for themselves and their children in a context complicated by competing demands, economic uncertainties, and structured relations of power. Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers an ethnography of Palomitáy's young women. 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 a racial, gendered, and class hierarchies." -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Young Mothers, Moral Experience, and the Politics of Care
• ch. 2 Dimensions of Precarity and Possibility in Peru
• ch. 3 Shaping (Modern) Mothers in Palomitay
• ch. 4 Dynamic Selves, Uncertain Desires
• ch. 5 Making Images, (Re)Visioning Mothers (a Photography Workshop)
• ch. 6 Moral Dialogues, Caring Dilemmas (a Theater Workshop).

Author/Creator:

Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Hierarchies of Care: Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru [by Van Vleet, K.E.]

Related Series:

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium

Subjects:

Girls — Peru

Motherhood — Peru

Orphanages — Peru

Peru — Social conditions — 1968-

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HV1125 .V368 2019eb

ISBNs:

9780252051647 (electronic bk.)
0252051645 (electronic bk.)
9780252042782 [Invalid]
0252042786 [Invalid]
9780252084614 [Invalid]
0252084616 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1241741642

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5978098 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16538615