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Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries A Global Perspective
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Edited by Parvin Ghorayshi and Claire Bélanger
ISBN: 0-313-29797-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29797-7
264 pages, figures, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/1996
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Sociology
Series Number: 118
Reviews:
  • This volume is packed full of ideas and illuminating case examples. It provides a rich array of situations where women have gained at least some control over their economic lives and provides illuminating opportunities to look at impacts on-going challenges. The authors are to be commended for presenting compelling empirical evidence for social change.
    —Journal of Social Service Research
  • [A]dd complexity and offer insight into our knowlegde of the daily practices of women worldwide and are accessible to a broad readership of students, scholars, and practitioners.
    —Gender & Society
Description: 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:
  • Preface
  • 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
LC Card Number: 96-10741
LCC Class: HQ1240
Dewey Class: 305
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