Situated Lives brings together the most important recent feminist and critical research that situates gender in relationship to the historical and material circumstances where gender, race, class and sexual orientation intersect and shape everyday interaction. Contributors include: Barbara Babcock, Jean Comaroff, Sarah Franklin, Faye Ginsburg, Matthew Gutmann, Faye V. Harrison, Louise Lamphere, Ellen Lewin, Jos^'e Lim^'on, Iris Lopez, Emily Martin, Mary Moran, Kirin Narayan, Aihwa Ong, Devon G. Pe^~na, Beatriz Pesquera, Helena Ragon^'e, Rayna Rapp, Judith Rollins, Leslie Salzinger, Denise Segura, Carol Stack, Ann Stoler, Donald D. Stull, Brett Williams, Patricia Zavella.

Louis Lamphere is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and is author of From WorkingDaughters to Working Mothers.Helena Ragone teaches anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and is the author of Surrogate Motherhood.PatriciaZavella is Professor and Chair of the Community Studies Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is author of Women's Work and Chicano Families.

Introduction - Louise Lamphere, Patricia Zavella, Helena Ragoné
Part I: The Power of Representation: Gendered Ethnography in Practice
1. How Native is a Native Anthropologist Kirin Narayan
2. Feministic Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants - Patricia Zavella
3. Carne, Carnales and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, Disorder, and Narrative Discourses - José Limón
Part II
4. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Women's Roles - Emily Martin
5. Making Sense of Missed Conceptions - Sarah Franklin
6. Surrogates, Fathers, and Adoptive Mothers - Helena Ragoné
7. Constructing Aminocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses - Raynna Rapp
8. The World Made Flesh: The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate - Faye Ginsburg
9. Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City - Iris Lopez
Part III: Constructing Family: Creating Household and Community
10. Reinventing the South in Upscaling Downtown - Brett Williams
11. This Permanent Roommate - Ellen Lewin
12. In the Beginning He Wouldn't Lift Even a Spoon: The Division of Household Labor - Beatriz Pesquera
13. The Meanings of Macho: Changing Mexican Male Identities - Matthew Gutmann
14. Holding Hands - Carol Stack
PartIV: Consciousness, transformation, and Resistance at Work
15. Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, Resentiment - Judith Rollins
16. A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of Dirty Work by Central American Immigrants - Leslie Salzinger
17. Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs: You Have to Prove Yourself More - Denise Segura
18. Knock 'em Dead: Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant - Donald D. Stull
19. Women's Resistance in the Sunbelt: Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control - Louise Lamphere and Patricia Zavella
20. Spirits of Resistance - Aihwa Ong
Part V: Colonizing Gender and Sexuality: Representation and Practice
21. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures - Ann Stoler
22. The Emperor's Old Clothes: Fashioning the Colonial Subject - Jean Comaroff
23. Mudwomen and Whitemen - A Meditation on Pueblo Potteries and the Politics of Representation - Barbara Babcock
24. Warriors or Soldiers?: Masculinity and Ritual Transvestism in the Liberian Civil War - Mary Moran
25. The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica - Faye V. Harrison
26. The Mirror of Exploitation - Devon G. Peña
Index