... favor a more pronounced subordination of women to their husbands and in-laws. crisis in Mexican Nevertheless, though some families adjust to the above-mentioned agriculture, traditional...

... Women Lupe is a twenty-six-year-old woman from Mexico City. She has lived in Melanie Nicholson Red Hook, New York, since September 2001, when she crossed the bor- der at Brownsville, Texas, and came north to join her husband, Gabriel. Lupe and Gabriel are part of a wave of recent immigrants to...

... businesswoman, stumbles across some steamy erotic e-mails her husband received from his secret lover. She believes that the most likely sus- pects are La La, a talented international artist; Mrs. Yeh, a local real estate mogul; and...

... Press 12 5 people the well could supply? Perhaps, if only indirectly, the Casio might save a baby’s life. I mentioned this last possibility to my husband during what was a particularly grueling apartment move, and I have to say that...

... increased productivity by assigning some of the content creation to his sister Laure and her husband. He was a pretty demanding project manager, asking for two chapters a day from each of them, but they rose to the challenge. There are actually two lessons here. First, don’t worry too much about...

... Press). She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters. John Andrews is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is currently working on a dissertation that examines affective dimensions of the economy. Eva Cherniavsky...

... desires and happiness for the sake of her husband and his family (this is the joint- family system, still very prevalent in the lower socioeconomic classes and sometimes even in middle and richer classes). She is told in no uncertain...

... differences that structure his narration of the nation. The scenario is divided into three time phases that track a set of activities involving four characters: a husband, A, his wife, B, his mistress, C, and her lover, D. In the “meanwhile” of the first time phase, the husband and wife quarrel while the...

... else claimed Lindo. Some time later Sofía married my brother, and although the house was perfect for them, they decided to sell it. The reasons were vague. There were whispered questions of whether it was appropriate for him to move into the house that the former husband had built. The answer was...

... infidelity through a series of absurd scenes. It portrays the compulsive carousing and drinking of a lazy husband. Jealous, gossiping neighbors denounce him while his wife, a successful market woman, alternates between anger, exasperation, and patience. The producer/director, Nana Bosompra, is one of...

... but by force of circumstances. It was in the early 1980s. I had recently set- tled in Porto Alegre with my (“native”) husband and two toddlers and was preparing my first classes of anthropology to be given at the federal university when...

... toilet. Her husband was a night watchman (chowkidar). They had little money. The will to save was there, in step with the will for bodily 76 Solomon · Short Cuts change. They asked their extended family for help and through donations were able to afford the surgery...

... to the nines with two wolfhounds on leashes in order to outbid everyone on a set of antique Chinese scrolls, which she purchases for an unheard of US$190 million. Yet despite her access to her husband’s near incomprehensible wealth and the forms of consumerism attendant to it, Kitty cannot break into...

... analogy in Romans between the position—and freedom—of a wife after the death of her husband and the position of Christians who have “died to the law.” This is a strange anal- ogy in many ways. First, if Christians are in the position of the wife, the law would...

... partner. The twenty-five-year-old Dominican woman living in Ossining and quoted below reported that her husband was adamant in his refusal to perform chores he called “women’s work.” Él es bien tranquilo. Lo único es que no le gusta...

... the loss of her daughters to their marital villages and will mourn the death of her son forever. Through the time I knew her, Rambal’s Wife’s social and emotional situation deteriorated. Her husband was arrested, leaving her poorer but no longer subject to his beatings. He left her pregnant...

... married and thus changed her maiden name, required by law, prevents her from entering her father’s family plot (and her husband’s family doesn’t have one). Childless, she also has no one to perform memorial services, which by Buddhist custom should be done twice a year and on regular anniversaries of...

... the Arctic) were immediately evacuated from the North by boat, plane, and/or train. The dislocation the evacuations caused was severe. Families who had never been apart were separated, sometimes for years at a time. Children were separated from parents, and husbands from wives, with little means of...

... death for having sex out of wedlock), Elvira (alienated by the elite, forced to become the only white prostitute in the town, who surprisingly finds true happiness later with her gay husband, and their faithful slave, whom they both share and who will father half of their children), the countess (who...