"In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Ame…
Demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by social pressures and phenomena such as beauty, time, the body, the gift exchange, class, gender and religion. What emerges is a sharply observed account of the place of dress in contemporary society.
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A brief, impactful book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affect the concept of family today. This book focuses on the impact of economic systems and social class on the organization of family life.
"It focuses on the impact of economic systems and social class on the organization of family life. Because the most vital function of the family is the survival of its members, the author gives primacy to the economic system in structuring the broad parameters of family life; th…