Home
Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling Ecuador
Barnes and Noble
Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling Ecuador
Current price: $25.00
![Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling Ecuador](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9780292743915_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg)
![Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling Ecuador](https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9780292743915_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg)
Barnes and Noble
Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling Ecuador
Current price: $25.00
Size: Paperback
Loading Inventory...
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Barnes and Noble
In this first in-depth study of a cosmetics direct selling organization in Latin America, Erynn Masi de Casanova explores women's identities as workers, including their juggling of paid work and domestic responsibilities, their ideas about professional appearance, and their strategies for collecting money from customers. Focusing on women who work for the country's leading direct selling organization, she offers fascinating portraits of the everyday lives of women selling personal care products in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil. Addressing gender relations (including a look at men's direct and indirect involvement), the importance of image, and the social and economic context of direct selling, Casanova challenges assumptions that this kind of flexible employment resolves women's work/home conflicts and offers an important new perspective on women's work in developing countries.