CROSSING THE FACTORY FRONTIER - GENDER, PLACE, AND POWER IN THE MEXICAN MAQUILADORA

A pressing question raised by contemporary feminist theorists is how c onceptualize the intricate relationship between women as social agents and ''Women-an ideological representation of a female subject. Schola rs have shown how women must often disavow this Woman in trying to est ablish their own careers. This article explores one facet of this issu e by tracing one woman's journey through a Mexican maquiladora in the hope of demonstrating how this ideology produces the capitalist divisi on of labor through the reproduction of sex-difference, nationality, a nd ethnic categories within one firm. The account raises some interest ing questions about resistance, which may not be resolvable in the con text of the workplace alone.