Helen I Safa
Biographic Data
| ID | 77629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen I Safa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen I |
| FAMILY NAME | Safa |
| SIGNATURE | SAFA H I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Myth of the Male Breadwinner
Testimonials
Class, Gender, and Race in the Caribbean
2012). Class, Gender, and Race in the Caribbean: Reflections on an Intellectual Journey. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes latino-americaines et caraibes: Vol. 37, No. 74, pp. 219-242
The Transformation of Puerto Rico
Anthony Lauria and I were colleagues in Puerto Rico in the l950s when the drive toward modernization was reaching its zenith. As we both show, in retrospect, this modernization ideology weakened many of the traditional roots of social cohesion in Puerto Rico, making the people more vulnerable to poverty and other social ills. The effects of this transformation are traced here, especially in the author's comparison of a traditional shantytown and …
Hierarchies and Household Change in Postrevolutionary Cuba
Although the matrifocal basis of the Cuban family, especially the close relationship between a woman, her children, and her female kin group, has historical roots in slavery, it is sustained by contemporary postrevolutionary structural forces, as seen by the dramatic increase in female-headed households in this period. In particular, matrifocality is linked to (1) the increase in women's labor force participation, which gave women more economic a…
The Matrifocal Family and Patriarchal Ideology in Cuba and the Caribbean
La matrifocalidad tiene en el Caribe raíces históricas profundas, como modalidad familiar alternativa que surgió en la clase popular afrocaribeña, donde los lazos consanguíneos eran más fuertes que los conyugales. Como en el resto del Caribe, la matrifocalidad está aumentando en Cuba, no obstante el apoyo que da el estado socialista al matrimonio legal y la familia nuclear. La reducción de las desigualdades clasistas y raciales tras la revolución…
Afro-cubans in the Special Period
Women, Development, and the UN
Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice, by Devaki Jain, with a foreword by Amartya Sen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 248 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-253
Mudanças Nos Papéis De Gênero Na América Latina E No Caribe
A autora examina as mudanças recentes nos papéis de gênero ocorridas na América Latina e no Caribe, relacionando-as com a crise econômica dos anos 80, que atingiu severamente a região. Três aspectos principais são enfocados: (i) a crescente participação feminina na força de trabalho; (ii) o impacto deste fenômeno sobre a estrutura familiar (crescimento do número de domicílios chefiados por mulheres e do peso da contribuição destas para a economia…
The Matrifocal Family and Patriarchal Ideology in Cuba and the Caribbean
Challenging Mestizaje
This article compares the contemporary movements for cultural autonomy and social legitimation organized by the indigenous and Afrodescendant populations of Latin America. These movements are challenging the concept of blanqueamiento or whitening embedded in the process of mestizaje in Latin America. Whitening proclaimed the superiority of white European culture over indigenous and black culture, a concept these movements are challenging by procl…
From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty" of Today
This paper derives from a LARR-sponsored forum at the LASA 2003 Congress held in Dallas in March 2003. Targeted at younger scholars, a panel of leading researchers whose early work was shaped by marginality and dependency thinking of the 1960s were invited to reflect cross-generationally about how paradigms analyzing poverty in Latin American cities have shifted from that time to the present. Specifically, each of the authors compares "marginalit…
Questioning Globalization
This article questions the benefits of globalization for low-income women through an analysis of 1997 data on women export-processing workers in the Dominican Republic. Export processing has contributed to an increase in women’s labor-force participation and their greater economic autonomy. But the percentage of men employed in export processing has also increased and efforts to improve working conditions through collective bargaining or other me…
Changing Forms of U.S. Hegemony in Puerto Rico
It has been over a hundred years since the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico. In that time, the way in which the U.S. perceived Puerto Rico has changed from a colony requiring Americanisation to, in the 1950s, its showcase of democracy in the Caribbean, to today, an island that still retains geopolitical importance for the U.S., but represents an increasing economic burden. The failure of Operation Bootstrap, as the Puerto Rican industrialization …
Enduring Traditions and New Directions in Feminist Ethnography in the Caribbean and Latin America
Commentary on race and revolution in Cuba
Free Markets and the Marriage Market
I argue that the neoliberal reforms brought on by structural adjustment appear to have contributed to a deterioration of the job market and a greater prevalence of female-headed households in the Dominican Republic. On the basis of data collected in 1994 among women working in a free trade zone, I show that structural adjustment increases the need for women to work, because of cuts in government programs, declining real wages, growing inflation, …
Race and National Identity in the Americas
Producing Power
Beijing, Diversity and Globalization
Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination
This article discusses the issue of whether wage labor merely exploits women as a source of cheap labor and adds to the domestic burden or whether wage labor gives women greater autonomy and raises their consciousness regarding womens subordinate role in society. These issues are discussed for women in Cuba Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. These countries share a history of Spanish colonialism plantation slavery and US control. The differe…
Sunbelt Working Mothers
The Maquiladora Industry
Caribbean Life in New York Clty
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Runaway Shops and Female Employment
Challenging Mestizaje
This article compares the contemporary movements for cultural autonomy and social legitimation organized by the indigenous and Afrodescendant populations of Latin America. These movements are challenging the concept of blanqueamiento or whitening embedded in the process of mestizaje in Latin America. Whitening proclaimed the superiority of white European culture over indigenous and black culture, a concept these movements are challenging by procl…
Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination
This article discusses the issue of whether wage labor merely exploits women as a source of cheap labor and adds to the domestic burden or whether wage labor gives women greater autonomy and raises their consciousness regarding womens subordinate role in society. These issues are discussed for women in Cuba Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. These countries share a history of Spanish colonialism plantation slavery and US control. The differe…
Popular culture, national identity, and race in the Caribbean
The idea that cultural identity of Caribbean peoples is somehow problematic has been around for so long and been upheld by such a variety of writers that it has become almost an axiom. Certainly, at least some of apprehension about Caribbean identity is founded in an insidious racism that eventually came to justify continued subjugation of an African slave labor force in New World. It is easy on this account to dismiss doubting remarks of observe…
The Female-Based Household in Public Housing
The increasing number of families with a female head in the United States is becoming a matter of growing concern, not only to practitioners dealing with low-income groups but also to social scientists interested in family structure and social change. The total number of households with a female head increased from 3,679,000 in 1950 to 4,609,000 in 1961. This represents an increase of 25.3 percent compared to an overall increase in the number of …
Questioning Globalization
This article questions the benefits of globalization for low-income women through an analysis of 1997 data on women export-processing workers in the Dominican Republic. Export processing has contributed to an increase in women’s labor-force participation and their greater economic autonomy. But the percentage of men employed in export processing has also increased and efforts to improve working conditions through collective bargaining or other me…
Free Markets and the Marriage Market
I argue that the neoliberal reforms brought on by structural adjustment appear to have contributed to a deterioration of the job market and a greater prevalence of female-headed households in the Dominican Republic. On the basis of data collected in 1994 among women working in a free trade zone, I show that structural adjustment increases the need for women to work, because of cuts in government programs, declining real wages, growing inflation, …
Hierarchies and Household Change in Postrevolutionary Cuba
Although the matrifocal basis of the Cuban family, especially the close relationship between a woman, her children, and her female kin group, has historical roots in slavery, it is sustained by contemporary postrevolutionary structural forces, as seen by the dramatic increase in female-headed households in this period. In particular, matrifocality is linked to (1) the increase in women's labor force participation, which gave women more economic a…
From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty" of Today
This paper derives from a LARR-sponsored forum at the LASA 2003 Congress held in Dallas in March 2003. Targeted at younger scholars, a panel of leading researchers whose early work was shaped by marginality and dependency thinking of the 1960s were invited to reflect cross-generationally about how paradigms analyzing poverty in Latin American cities have shifted from that time to the present. Specifically, each of the authors compares "marginalit…
Enduring Traditions and New Directions in Feminist Ethnography in the Caribbean and Latin America
Class, Gender, and Race in the Caribbean
2012). Class, Gender, and Race in the Caribbean: Reflections on an Intellectual Journey. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes latino-americaines et caraibes: Vol. 37, No. 74, pp. 219-242
Women, Development, and the UN
Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice, by Devaki Jain, with a foreword by Amartya Sen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 248 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-253
Changing Forms of U.S. Hegemony in Puerto Rico
It has been over a hundred years since the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico. In that time, the way in which the U.S. perceived Puerto Rico has changed from a colony requiring Americanisation to, in the 1950s, its showcase of democracy in the Caribbean, to today, an island that still retains geopolitical importance for the U.S., but represents an increasing economic burden. The failure of Operation Bootstrap, as the Puerto Rican industrialization …
Race and National Identity in the Americas
UN Decade for Women Conference and NGO Forum
Female Employment and the Social Reproduction of the Puerto Rican Working Class
This article assesses the contribution women make to the social reproduction of working class families in Puerto Rico, a society which has undergone rapid industrialization, migration and urbanization in the period since 1940. The first part of this paper will attempt to explain this phenomenon through an analysis of the role of women in the industrialization process in Puerto Rico. In the second part we shall move to a micro-level of analysis in…
Female Employment and the Social Reproduction of the Puerto Rican Working Class
The Female-Based Household in Public Housing
The increasing number of families with a female head in the United States is becoming a matter of growing concern, not only to practitioners dealing with low-income groups but also to social scientists interested in family structure and social change. The total number of households with a female head increased from 3,679,000 in 1950 to 4,609,000 in 1961. This represents an increase of 25.3 percent compared to an overall increase in the number of …
Development and Change
Migration and Urbanization
Ethnology
Migration and Urbanization. Models and Adaptive Strategies
Urbanization and Inequality
Urbanization and Inequality
Film
Migration and Urbanization
Migration and Urbanization. Models and Adaptive Strategies
What We Can Do for Each Other
Migration and Urbanization. Models and Adaptive Strategies
The Gecekondu
The gecekondu are the shantytowns of Turkey. This study by Kemal Karpat investigates within a broad historical, conceptual and comparative framework the migration and urbanization of the people of these settlements. It is based on personal interviews with people living in three gecekondu in the northern hills of Istanbul, along the Bosporus. The gecekondu are considered here as a part of the entire process of rural migration and urbanization - an…
Human Migration
The Puerto Rican Dilemma
"Comments on Tinker's "A Feminist View of Copenhagen
Runaway Shops and Female Employment
La Chicana
Cultural/Applied
Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries
Female Employment and the Social Reproduction of the Puerto Rican Working Class
This article assesses the contribution women make to the social reproduction of working class families in Puerto Rico, a society which has undergone rapid industrialization, migration and urbanization in the period since 1940. The first part of this paper will attempt to explain this phenomenon through an analysis of the role of women in the industrialization process in Puerto Rico. In the second part we shall move to a micro-level of analysis in…
Female Employment and the Social Reproduction of the Puerto Rican Working Class
UN Decade for Women Conference and NGO Forum
International Notes
Women and Change in Latin America
A fine collection ...this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. American Anthropologist Outlines in impressive detail the dimensions of women's powerlessness and shows the rich array of strategies women use to survive the oppression of their daily lives. Women's Review of Books
Sociology (30 works) · Political science (25 works) · Economics (22 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Development economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works)