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Helen Safa

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Masters Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Sociology University of Puerto Rico

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According to Wikipedia, Helen M. Icken Safa was an anthropologist, feminist scholar and academic. Safa focused her work on Latin American studies and she served as president of the Latin American Studies Association from 1983 to 1985. She taught anthropology and Latin American studies at Syracuse University, Rutgers University and the University of Florida. She received the Silvert Award, the highest honor given by the Latin American Studies Association.

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Helen Safa's Published Works

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The Myth Of The Male Breadwinner: Women And Industrialization In The Caribbean (1995) (294)
WOMEN'S SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA (1990) (193)
Runaway Shops and Female Employment: The Search for Cheap Labor (1981) (184)
The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy (1997) (131)
Women and Change in Latin America (1985) (102)
The Matrifocal Family and Patriarchal Ideology in Cuba and the Caribbean (2005) (89)
Sex and Class in Latin America (1983) (80)
Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor by Gender (1986) (75)
Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination (1995) (70)
The urban poor of Puerto Rico: a study in development and inequality (1974) (49)
Urbanization, The Informal Economy And State Policy In Latin America (1986) (35)
Questioning Globalization: Gender and Export Processing in the Dominican Republic (2002) (35)
Race and National Identity in the Americas (1998) (34)
Popular culture, national identity, and race in the Caribbean (1987) (30)
Towards a political economy of urbanizaton in Third World countries (1983) (29)
Hierarchies and Household Change in Postrevolutionary Cuba (2009) (28)
Sex and class in Latin America : women's perspectives on politics, economics, and the family in the Third World (1980) (27)
Free Markets and the Marriage Market: Structural Adjustment, Gender Relations, and Working Conditions among Dominican Women Workers (1999) (25)
Migration and urbanization : models and adaptive strategies (1975) (25)
Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice (2007) (25)
Women and Industrialisation in the Caribbean (1990) (23)
Migration and Development: Implications for Ethnic Identity and Political Conflict (1975) (18)
Female Employment and the Social Reproduction of the Puerto Rican Working Class 1 (1984) (18)
Where the big fish eat the little fish (1997) (15)
Impact of the economic crisis on poor women and their households. (1997) (15)
Class Consciousness Among Working Class Women in Latin America: A Case Study in Puerto Rico (1975) (13)
The Female-Based Household in Public Housing: A Case Study in Puerto Rico (1965) (13)
The New Women Workers Does Money Equal Power (1993) (12)
From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. Louise Lamphere (1989) (12)
The Changing Class Composition of the Female Labor Force in Latin America (1977) (12)
Gender Inequality and Women’s Wage Labour: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (1996) (10)
Beijing, Diversity and Globalization: Challenges to the Women's Movement in Latin America and the Caribbean (1996) (8)
Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America. By Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. Pp. xxv+486. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2002) (8)
Changing Forms of U.S. Hegemony in Puerto Rico: The Impact on the Family and Sexuality (2001) (7)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUERTO RICO: THE IMPACT OF MODERNIZATION IDEOLOGY (2011) (7)
Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America (2004) (6)
Comments on Tinker's "A Feminist View of Copenhagen" (1981) (6)
Class, Gender, and Race in the Caribbean: Reflections on an Intellectual Journey (2012) (4)
Social problems in corporate America (1975) (3)
The city as a social system. (1969) (3)
From Rural to Urban, From Men to Women, From Class Struggle to Struggles for Entitlements (2004) (3)
Some Perspectives on Balkan Migration Patterns (with Particular Reference to Yugoslavia) (2017) (3)
Female-headed Households and Poverty in Latin America: State Policy in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic (2010) (2)
The Social Cost of Dependency (1995) (2)
Gender Implications of Export-Led Industrialization in the Caribbean Basin (2018) (1)
AFRO‐CUBANS IN THE SPECIAL PERIOD (2008) (1)
Migration and Urbanization. Models and Adaptive Strategies.@@@Migration and Development. Implications for Ethnic Identity and Political Conflict. (1976) (1)
11. Globalization, Inequality, and the Growth of Female-Headed Households in the Caribbean (2020) (1)
UN Decade for Women Conference and NGO Forum (1985) (1)
In the Shadows of the Sun (2019) (1)
The Case for Negro Separatism (1968) (1)
Introduction (1998) (1)
AN ANALYSIS OF UPWARD MOBILITY IN LOW-INCOME FAMILIES--A COMPARISON OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY LIFE AMONG AMERICAN NEGRO AND PUERTO RICAN POOR. (1967) (1)
What We Can Do for Each Other: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Development Anthropology. Glynn Cochrane (1977) (0)
The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (review) (2005) (0)
Exports and Local Development: Mexico’s New Maquiladoras (1993) (0)
Cultural/Applied: The People of Buena Ventura. Douglas S. Butterworth. (1982) (0)
The Male Breadwinner and Women’s Wage Labor (2018) (0)
Gender and Industrialization in the Caribbean Basin (2018) (0)
The Historical Legacy: U.S.-Caribbean Relations (2019) (0)
Commentary on race and revolution in Cuba (1999) (0)
The Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898–1958: The Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism. 13 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $910. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990.) (1992) (0)
WOMEN , INDUSTRIALIZATION AND STATE POLICY IN CUBA (1989) (0)
Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America by Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Leon:Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America (2002) (0)
Out of the Shadow: Alternative U.S. Policies Toward the Caribbean (2019) (0)
Profiles in poverty : an analysis of social mobility in low-income families (1966) (0)
Development and Change: Cities Under Siege: An Anatomy of Ghetto Riots, 1964–68. DAVID BOESEL and PETER H. ROSSI (1973) (0)
Gender, Poverty, and National Identity in Afrodescendent and Indigenous Movements (2010) (0)
La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman (1981) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, eds. (1992) (0)
CHANGING MODES OF PRODUCTION Introduction (2012) (0)
The Dominican Republic: Export Manufacturing and the Economic Crisis (2018) (0)
Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World@@@Women and Change in Latin America@@@Class and Gender in India: Women and Their Organizations in a South Indian City (1987) (0)
Book Review: The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization (1979) (0)
Book Reviews (1995) (0)
Preface (1981) (0)
Caribbean Life in New York Clty: Sociocultural Dimensions. CONSTANCE R. SUTTON and ELSA M. CHANEY (1989) (0)
Household Economy and Urban Development: São Paulo, 1765 to 1836. Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof (1987) (0)
Ethnology:Family and Kinship in Modern Society. BERNARD FARBER. Glenview (1975) (0)
Structural Adjustment and the Quest for Participation (2019) (0)
Editor's Introduction (1972) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Work without Wages: Comparative Studies of Domestic Labor and Self‐Employment within Capitalism. Jane L. Collins and Martha Gimenez, eds. (1991) (0)
Film: The Double Day. 1975. Produced by the International Women's Film Project. Directed by Helena Solberg‐Ladd (1977) (0)
The Caribbean Basin Initiative (2019) (0)
Lillian Guerra, Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico: The Struggle for Self, Community, and Nation (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. xi+332, $49.95 hb. (2000) (0)
Beyond Structural Adjustment: Alternative Development Strategies (2019) (0)
New Social Movements and the State in Latin America (1987) (0)
López Sprinfield, Consuelo, ed. Daughters of Caliban Caribbean Women in the Twenttieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. (1998) (0)
Impact of the Crisis on Poor Women and Their Households (2019) (0)
Becoming West Indian: Culture, Self, and Nation in St. Vincent, by Virginia Heyer Young. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993 (1995) (0)
Introduction (1977) (0)
From Victims to Rebels (1986) (0)
The City As A Social System: Implications for Planning and Urban Policy. Editor's Introduction. (1972) (0)
Cuba: Revolution and Gender Inequality (2018) (0)
Feminist Africa 7.indd (2007) (0)
Collaborative Research under Socialism (2016) (0)
Migration and Urbanization: Models and Adaptive Strategies@@@Migration and Development: Implications for Ethnic Identity and Political Conflict (1977) (0)
Women Workers and the Rise and Decline of Puerto Rico’s Operation Bootstrap (2018) (0)
Book Review: The Maguitadora Industry: Economic Solution or Problem? (1992) (0)
Conclusion: Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination (2018) (0)
POPULAR CULTURE, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND RACE IN (2016) (0)
The Economic Crisis (2019) (0)
The Impact On The Family And Sexuality (2016) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Racism, Sexism, and the World‐System. Joan Smith, Jane Collins, Terence K. Hopkins, and Akbar Muhammad, eds (1989) (0)
Feminist Africa Issue 7. 2007: Diaspora Voices (2017) (0)
Development and Changing Gender Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean (2019) (0)
Migration and Urbanization. Models and Adaptive Strategies. (1977) (0)

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