María L. Cruz-Torres is an anthropologist and associate professor at Arizona State University's School of Transborder Studies. She is a coeditor of Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America and the author of Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico.
* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Amber Sunsets and Pink Gold
* Chapter 1. Contested Grounds: Women Shrimp Traders and Street
Economies
* Chapter 2. On Becoming Changueras: Gendered Livelihoods and Contested
Identities
* Chapter 3. The Street of the Women Shrimp Traders: Learning the
Tricks of the Trade in Space and Place
* Chapter 4. Here We Are Like a Family: The Complexity of Social
Relations
* Chapter 5. The Culture and Economy of Pink Gold: The Meanings,
Processes, and Values of Shrimp
* Chapter 6. Sometimes We Work Just to Pay Our Debts: Informal Credit
and Savings Systems
* Chapter 7. From Outcasts to Icons: Women Shrimp Traders and
Expressive Culture
* Conclusion: Feminist Political Ecology, Ethnography, and Uncovering
Lived Realities
* References
* Index
