Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town

Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatep quez. Revisiting many of the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her earlier hopeful assessment of women's entrepreneurial opportunities, Ehlers convincingly demonstrates that development and commercial growth in the region have benefited men at the expense of women.

Author: Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 03/01/2000
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.80w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780292721036

About the Author
Ehlers, Tracy Bachrach: - Tracy Bachrach Ehlers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver.