Until recently, few scholars outside of Ecuador studied the country's history. In the past few years, however, its rising tide of indigenous activism has brought unprecedented attention to this small Andean nation. Even so, until now the significance of gender issues to the development of modern Indian-state relations has not often been addressed. As she digs through Ecuador's past to find key events and developments that explain the simultaneous importance and marginalization of indigenous women in Ecuador today, Erin O'Connor usefully deploys gender analysis to illuminate broader...

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O Connor explores the industrial logic of disease, the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian thinking about cultural processes in general, and about disease in particular.
O Connor focuses on how four particularly troubling physical conditions were represented in a variety of...

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O Connor explores the industrial logic of disease, the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian thinking about cultural processes in general, and about disease in particular.
O Connor focuses on how four particularly troubling physical conditions were represented in a variety of...