Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries A Global Perspective

Subjects:

• Sociology » Sociology (General)
• Sociology » Sex & Gender Studies
• Women's Studies » Women in Business & Labor

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

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