New Blog about Gender and Women’s Issues in Bolivia

I wanted to bring it to our readers’ attention that there is an excellent new blog about gender and women’s issue in Bolivia. http://eugeniadealtura.wordpress.com/ It is by an anonymous author who is conducting research in the La Paz area. Here is the description: “Eugenia de Altura is the blog of a female graduate student currently [...]

Travels with Toddler

Despite the awful treatment we received by the AA CS reps, the flights were relatively uneventful even with an active and curious 17 month old. Flight attendants on both the ORD-MIA and MIA-VVI trips smiled and waved at Javi, told us to please ask for more juice, snacks, etc if we needed anything for him [...]

Bolivia’s mom and kid friendly new law

La Razón reports that all working women with nursing infants up to six months of age have the right to bring their babies to work or school with them, nurse them in a comfortable room under “condiciones óptimas,” and to continue their work/study with their infants for this period of time. The motivation behind the [...]

Used Clothes, Fake Braids

When I was starting my fieldwork, a woman asked me if I washed my clothes. I admitted I paid someone to do it. But what about in the United States? she pressed. Of course, I answered, there I wash my clothes myself. She then told me that many Bolivians believe that Americans do not wash [...]