Crafting Gender

""The richness of this book comes from the possibility of comparing the artistic production of different countries to each other and the ability to discern the differing ways that women produce their arts... Highly recommended.""--L. E. Carranza, CHOICE ""Folklorists will ... appreciate the essays that introduce aspects of belief systems that are fundamental to a critique of gender relations and also underlie the spiritual relationship of artists to their material and imagery... Many themes in this book suggest new directions for folk art scholarship in the twenty-first century... Crafting Gender is appropriate for courses on folk art, as well as on women and gender studies. It will stimulate further discussions on such topics as the variables of marketing art and cultural identity, sustainable village craft enterprises, and power plays among artists and local art collectives and government agencies.""-- Suzanne MacAulay, Journal of American Folklore ""For anyone interested in women's folk art in Latin American and the Caribbean, Bartra's volume is an invaluable resource, and it is a major contribution from the standpoint of students and scholars interested in art, the anthropology of work, gender and family studies, and international development. I share Bartra's hope that this anthology will be followed by many others that contribute to the discovery, understanding, and valuing of the incredibly rich creative world of women folk artists.""-- Kimberley Grimes, American Ethnologist