Within the fifth and sixth chapters of the book, Bourgois discusses the effect of the social and institutional ideologies of gender roles on the women who are associated with the drug dealers of El Barrio. One of these jibaro ideologies insists that the role of the woman is to bare children and maintain a stable household, as explained by Bourgois in the excerpt above. A Puerto Rican woman is granted permission to leave her parents only if she marries a man she loves. This unity is solidified only after the woman produces a child. In Candy’s situation, regardless that she was only thirteen years old when she became pregnant, her parents obeyed the jibaro tradition and released her from their household to live with her fourteen year old lover
