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- Title
Campesinas and Comuneras: Subordination in the Sierra.
- Authors
Bourque, Susan C.; Warren, Kay B.
- Abstract
This article considers three models of male-female economic roles and tests their utility in explaining the position of women in Andean society. Using data from eleven Peruvian campesino communities the authors argue that women occupy a consistently subordinate position despite the highly interdependent nature of economic roles in the family and broader community. Patterns of assimilation to national culture tend to reflect and reinforce subordination. The authors suggest that a model which delineates the sexual division and stereotyping of social, political, and economic roles provides the best explanation for subordination. They emphasize the need for data on Andean women's and men's perceptions of each other, as well as data on the links between subordination based on sex and subordination based on ethnicity.
- Subjects
ANDES Region; SOCIOECONOMICS; GENDER role; WOMEN; SUBORDINATION (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1976, Vol 38, Issue 4, p781
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/350697