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Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries
A Global Perspective
Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries
A Global Perspective
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The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender relations that is at once multidisciplinary and feminist. Women's work in the household, agriculture, industry, and in the so-called informal sector is explored with a concern for the ways in which gender, class, and ethnicity are constructed by the larger socioeconomic structures in which women live. By taking concrete analyses of women's lives as their point of departure, the contributors to this volume strive to bridge the gap between socio-economic structure of the society and the actual circumstances in which women find themselves. In this way, readers and scholars alike are better able to untangle the complex dynamics of gender relations and to develop strategies for social change.
Table of Contents
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
The Study of Gender and Generational Hierarchies in the Context of Development: Methodological Aspects by Marie France Labrecque
Toward Postcolonial Methodologies by Lynn Phillips
Out of Egypt: A Talk with Nawal El Saadawi by Tiffany R. Patterson and Angela M. Gilliam
The Link Between Structure, Global Economy and the Everyday Life
Women Who Make the Chips by Les Lewidow
Women in the Rural Economy in Nigeria by Christiana E. E. Okojie
The Political Economy of Women's Work in Kenya: Chronic Constraints and Broken Barriers by Collete Suda
Women and Garden Produce of Kinshasa: The Difficult Quest for Autonomy by Gertrude Mianda
Negotiating Ideal Womanhood in Rural Philippine Households: Work and Survival by Tuula Heinonen
Moral Regulation and Microlevel Politics: Women's Work and Struggles in Rural Turkey by Suzan M. Ilcan
Filipino Women and the Work of Mothering by Delia D. Aguilar
A Challenge to Capitalist Development
The Case of Mauritania: Women's Productive Activities in Urban Areas--A Process of Empowerment
Women Traders as Promoters of a Subsistence Perspective: The Case of Juchitán (Oaxaca), Mexico by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
Social Change Through Empowerment and Self-Organization
Turning Acts of Borrowing into Acts of Empowerment: Self-Organization of the Annapurna Women of Bombay by Dina Abbott
Working for Social Change: Learning from and Building Women's Knowledge to Develop Economic Literacy by Mary Morgan
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 21 1996 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9780313297977 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Controversies in Science |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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