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Book SynopsisExplores the initial success, and later failure, of a liberationist Catholic women's cooperative in central Ecuador. Using archival and ethnographic methods, Jill DeTemple shares the story of the women involved in the cooperative and places their stories in the larger context of both the cooperative and the community.
Trade Review“One of the most important contributions of Making Market Women is to place issues of gender and religious identity at the heart of its analysis of this economic development project.” —Randall Styers, author of Making Magic
“DeTemple’s thoughtful case study illuminates how global projects like liberation theology, charismatic Catholicism, and neoliberalism are understood, enacted, transformed, and resisted in a local context. Making Market Women offers an important and nuanced case study that will be invaluable for researchers and students interested in religion, anthropology, and economic development.” —Laurie A. Occhipinti, author of Making a Difference in a Globalized World
Through the lens of the cheese cooperative women, DeTemple demonstrates the dissonance of the new world order, weaving the processes of liberation theology and its economic nemesis, neoliberalism, through a story that is at once both universal and particular." —The Americas
"DeTemple’s study remains accessible to a readership beyond think-tanks or anthropologists. By applying evidence from over a hundred interviews, she enlivens her scholarly narrative. In five chapters, DeTemple uses the rise and fall of the local cheese factory to illustrate how religious praxis and economic development competed rather than cooperated, from 1998 to 2006." —Reading Religion
