@inbook{10.7864/j.ctt1280m1.12,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt1280m1.12},
 abstract = {Birthday parties break the monotony and hardship of daily life, and are times of happiness and celebration. They also provide “apt illustration” (Mitchell 1968) of the pooling and sharing around a family life cycle ritual. This description of a barrio fiesta is timeless; the social construction of gender relationships in the domestic arena played out at such an event has not changed in thirty years. Within the household it is women who are responsible for the preparation and running of the event; as with daily provisioning and household consumption, Latin American cultural norms attribute such female tasks as “natural” women’s},
 bookauthor = {CAROLINE O. N. MOSER},
 booktitle = {Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004},
 pages = {157--181},
 publisher = {Brookings Institution Press},
 title = {The Impact of Intrahousehold Dynamics on Asset Vulnerability and Accumulation},
 year = {2009}
}