Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries

A Global Perspective

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-10-21
Mått:161 x 240 x 19 mm
Vikt:564 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313297977

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PARVIN GHORAYSHI is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. Her previous publications include Women and Work in Developing Countries: An Annotated Bibliography, (Greenwood Press, 1994) which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Book for 1994.CLAIRE BÉLANGER is Programme Officer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Ottawa, Canada.

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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 Juchitan (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