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from Mary to modern woman: the material basis of Marianismo and its transformation in a Spanish village
Author(s) -
COLLIER JANE F.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1986.13.1.02a00060
Subject(s) - inheritance (genetic algorithm) , negotiation , ideology , sociology , politics , honor , inequality , gender studies , style (visual arts) , political science , law , social science , history , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , computer science , gene , operating system , archaeology
In one generation, married women in an Andalusian village appeared to have turned from emulating the Virgin Mary to emulating the modern woman of Spanish advertisements and TV. Drawing on the notion that gender conceptions are aspects of cultural systems through which people negotiate relations of inequality within complex social wholes, I suggest that a concern for female chastity gave way to a concern for personal capacities and preferences when inequalities in income and life‐style among villagers no longer appeared to rest on inheritance, but on the urban, salaried jobs people obtained . [Mediterranean society, gender, political economy, honor code, ideology]