Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

This article examines two heuristically defined positions regarding the relationship between international migration and rural economic development in Mexico: the `structuralist' or `historical structuralist' position of the 1970s and early 1980s that argued that remittances do not lead to rural economic development; and the `functionalist' position of the 1990s that argued the opposite. The author critiques systematically the functionalist position, then situates it politically in the context of failed neoliberal economic policies. He argues for the need to study international migration as a total social process, that takes into account the comparative impact of migrant labor on the US and Mexican economies. Despite its subordination of social actors to determining social structures, the structural approach offers a better starting point for a reformulated approach to the social and economic consequences of international migration in the contemporary world.

Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico

This article provides an empirical test of the widely accepted assumption that migration contributes to union instability The data come from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) data base MMP93 We use multilevel discrete time event history analysis to specify the odds of union dissolution for male household heads by individual- and community-level US migration experience In the context of the US-Mexico migration flow we find that US migration significantly increases the odds of union dissolution for individuals with extensive migration experience as well as for residents in communities with medium international migration levels We conclude that changes in normative values and social control levels for both individuals and communities are partial contributors to this relationship (authors)

The Grass Widows of Mexico: Migration and Union Dissolution in a Binational Context

Transnational social networks powerfully shape Mexican migration and enable families to stretch internationally. In an atmosphere of such high dependence on social networks, it would be rare for families not to be affected by the opinions of others. This article analyzes this often-overlooked aspect of social networks, gossip. I analyze gossip stories prevalent for one type of migrant family, those in which parents and children live apart. Drawing on over 150 ethnographic interviews and observation with members of Mexican transnational families and their neighbors in multiple sites, I describe both parents’ and children’s experiences with transnational gossip. I show that in a transnational context, gossip is a highly gendered activity with different consequences for men and women. Although targeting both women and men, transnational gossip reinforces the expectations that mothers be family caregivers and fathers be family providers even when physical separation makes these activities difficult to accomplish.

Gender and Transnational Gossip

This paper highlights the ways in which relations of power, specifically those of gender, shape knowledge production, resource distribution, decision-making and thus, adaptation to climate change. I utilize feminist standpoint theory and geographic conceptualizations of social reproduction to argue that policies and programs that seek to enhance adaptation to climate change must understand how gender affects differential access to resources and decision-making in the context of climate variability. Specifically, I argue that situated knowledge and social reproduction are useful conceptual tools for analyzing how women’s daily activities and social locations shape what they know and how they respond to social and environmental stressors like drought. In making this argument, I present the results of fieldwork conducted in two rural communities in Mexico’s semi-arid highlands to empirically explore the significance of gender in the production of knowledge, provisioning of resources, and the different ways that households adapt to climate change. This kind of critical engagement between feminist and adaptive capacity approaches opens up a conceptual space for reflection and encounters that move the debates closer toward addressing the challenges that climate change presents.

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Who Reaps what is Sown? A Feminist Inquiry into Climate Change Adaptation in Two Mexican Ejidos

El estudio de la migracion no es un asunto nuevo en la antropologfa mexicana. La larga tradicion de desplazam i e n t o s de p o b l a c i o n en b u s c a de mejores condiciones de vida, se registra ya en los textos de Gamio sobre trabaj adores mexicanos en Estados Unidos, escritos en las primeras decadas del s ig lo p a s a d o . 1 P o s t e r i o r m e n t e , durante los anos cuarenta, la problematica tuvo una presencia significativa en el de sa r ro l lo de la h ipdte s i s de Robert Redfield respecto a los procesos de aculturacion en el trdnsito, por el l lamado continuum, de sociedades folk a urbanas, poniendose asi las bases p a r a los pos ter iores e s tud io s sobre migracion. A principios de la decada s iguiente, la pol^mica entre Robert Redfield y Oscar Lewis sobre el cambio cul tura l , a u n q u e no foca l i zada exp l ic i tamente en los m o v i m i e n t o s migratorios, si' tuvo a los migrantes a

Migración y relaciones de género en México

Migración internacional, crisis agrícola y transformaciones culturales en la región central de Veracruz

This article seeks to examine the conditions in which masculinity is constructed among the young men known as «falcons» engaged in surveillance and security for drug cartels. It analyses the ethnographic experience collected in two scenarios: Ciudad de Mante in the state of Tamaulipas and the Coatzacoalcos prison in Veracruz. We show methods of recruitment and operations, the roles these young men play and what their work means for their gender identities. We also reflect on ethnography in contexts of violence and suggest tools like cyberethnography and websites specializing in the issue with discussion forums, as a direct source of information for individuals outside the law.

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En la línea de fuego: Construcción de masculinidades en jóvenes tamaulipecos ligados al narco

This article explores two key aspects in the study of sexuality: a) reflecting on the theoretical nature of the concept and b) proposing that sexuality —as a point of confluence between social standards and individuals' ethical action— can be regarded as an essential methodological tool for the analysis of oscillations in the balance of power between the genders

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Reflexiones teórico-metodológicas en torno al estudio de la sexualidad

This paper analyses the trouble some relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law as the result of patrivirilocal residence patterns in Mexican countryside. It also contributes to the discussion concerning the situation of peasant women in regards to gender subordination and feminine empowerment in ac ommon land community of central Veracruz

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Rosío Córdova Plaza

Papers

Migración y relaciones de género en México

Migración internacional, crisis agrícola y transformaciones culturales en la región central de Veracruz

En la línea de fuego: Construcción de masculinidades en jóvenes tamaulipecos ligados al narco

Reflexiones teórico-metodológicas en torno al estudio de la sexualidad

"Y en medio de nosotros mi madre como un Dios": de suegras y nueras en una comunidad rural veracruzana