Hierarchies of care : girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru / Krista E. Van Vleet.

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Van Vleet, Krista E, 1965- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Interpretations of culture in the new millennium | Illinois scholarship onlinePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations (black and white), mapsContent type:

text
still image
cartographic image

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780252051647
0252051645

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

362.78743098537 23

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HQ759.4

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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.

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Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.