Transgressing Borders goes beyond conventional popularized notions of the household, gender, and family by destabilizing their boundaries and challenging the codes that govern people's lives.

Introduction "Health/Politics" and the Family From a Cancerous Body to a Reconciled Family: Legitimizing Neoliberalism in Chile by Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic HIV and the State of the Family by Alan Sears and Barry D. Adam Gender-Geographies and the Changing Household Dissecting Globalization: Women's Space-Time in the Other America by Lynne Phillips Challenging Settlement: Rural Women's Culture of Dis-placement by Suzan Ilcan Reconstituting Households, Retelling Culture: Emigration and Portuguese Fisheries Workers by Sally Cole Colonialism, Community, and Kinship Shadow of Domination: Colonialism, Household, and Community Relations by Max Hedley Weaving and Mothering: Reframing Navajo Weaving as Recursive Manifestations of K'e by Kathy M'Closkey Gendered Kin and Conflict in Kenya by Judith M. Abwunza Work and (En)gendered Dwellings Ties that Define and Bind: Exploring Custom and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Coastal Communities in Nova Scotia by Anthony Davis and Daniel MacInnes Craft Production and Household Practices in the Upland Philippines by B. Lynne Milgram Rural Women Face Capitalism: Women's Response as "Guardians" of the Household by Parvin Ghorayshi Sustainable Agriculture: Implications for Gender and the Family Farm by Alan Hall Economic Restructuring and Unpaid Work by Anne Forrest For Further Reading Index