Hierarchies of care : girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru /
Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965-
Hierarchies of care : girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru / Krista E. Van Vleet. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps. - Interpretations of culture in the new millennium Illinois scholarship online .
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780252051647
Teenage mothers--Social conditions--Peru--Cuzco--21st century.
Mother and child--Peru--Cuzco.
Electronic Books.
HQ759 / .H547 2020
Hierarchies of care : girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru / Krista E. Van Vleet. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps. - Interpretations of culture in the new millennium Illinois scholarship online .
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780252051647
Teenage mothers--Social conditions--Peru--Cuzco--21st century.
Mother and child--Peru--Cuzco.
Electronic Books.
HQ759 / .H547 2020