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Preface -- Acknowledgmenls -- 1 Introduction -- TheTown -- Being in the Field -- The Political Background -- San Pedro Sacatep6quez in Ten Year Perspective -- Guatemalan Gender Studies -- Previous Studies of San Pedro Sacatepequez -- Notes -- 2 Ethnographic Sketch -- The Fuentes Chicken Business -- Aldeas San Jos6 Caben -- Class Distinctions -- History of San Pedro as a Weaving Town -- Women and the Economy -- Work and the Family -- Highland Oasis? -- Notes -- 3 Female Labor and the Family -- The Miranda Tienda -- Female Domestic Labor -- Shopping -- Cooking -- Washing -- The Value of Daughters -- Budgets -- Dofla Yolanda -- Dofla Antonia -- Dofla Clarisa -- Female Labor and Schooling -- The Itinerant Textile Trader -- La Casa de Las Mujeres -- Female Labor in the Future -- Notes -- Photo graphs following page -- 4 Female Traders -- The Conu!rciante -- The Traveling Breadmakers -- Plaza Traders -- The Soap Seller -- The Vegetable Lady -- The Tin Merchant -- The Young Trader -- Mercado Merchants -- The T(pica Dealer -- The Wholesaler/Retailer -- Canasta Women -- The Masa Maker -- Storekeepers -- Teresa Fuentes -- Marga Mendez -- Juana Orozco -- Female Traders and the Internal Market -- Notes -- 5 Cottage Industry -- Weaving as a Cottage Industry -- The Ochoa Family Weavers -- Traditional and Modem Clothing in San Pedro -- The Value of Traje -- Modem Cottage Industry -- The Knitting Machine -- Commercial Weaving -- Dressmakers -- The Demise of the Huipil -- Notes -- 6 Women and Men -- TheGameofLove -- Female Seclusion in Oass Perspective -- Male Authority and the Family -- Authority and Courtship -- Getting Married -- Unido Marriages -- Marriage and the Poor Woman -- Sex and the Parallel Marriage -- The Latin Lover Debunlced -- Marriage and Development -- Notes -- 7 Women and Social Change -- References -- lndex.