BOESTEN JELKE: Intersecting Inequalities: Women and Social Policy in Peru, 1990–2000. Penn State University Press, 2010.

Abstract

Many social scientists have recently called for studies of marginalized people’s interaction with ‘the state’ in particular contexts. While the role of state apparatus in perpetuating gendered, racial and class-based inequalities is a popular topic of theoretical discussion, analyses of the minutiae of subjects’ daily engagements with state power, in the form of bureaucracy, development programs and grassroots organizing have been less common.