Gender at work in economic life / edited by Gracia Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Gracia.

Series:

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 20.

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual division of labor--History.

Sexual division of labor.

Women--Employment--History.

Women.

Women--Employment.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Altamira Press, [2003]

Summary:

This new volume from SEA illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. The contributors are economic anthropologists who consider the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context, examining issues of: historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers in anthropology and in the related fields of economics, sociology of work, gender studies, women's studies, and economic development.

Contents:

Introduction : how gender works, in the practice of theory and other social processes / Gracia Clark

Concepts of gender within economic change. Archeology and the gender without history / F. Ann Pyburn. Rain and cattle : gendered structure and political economy in precolonial Pare, Tanzania / N. Thomas Hakansson. Woman-head households in agrarian societies : not just a passing phase / Evelyn Blackwood

Entrepreneurs as women. Female entrepreneurship in the Caribbean : a miultisite, pilot investigation of gender and work / Katherine E. Browne. Women, modernity and the global economy : negotiating gender and economic difference in the Upland Philippines / Lynne Milgram. Between family and market : women and the new Silk Road in post-Soviet Kazakstan / Cynthia Werner

Love and entitlements. Neoliberalism and newer economics of practice : gender and the politics of consciousness in a Nepalese merchant community / Katharine N. Rankin. "Why would she fight her family?" : Indian women's negotiations of discourses of inheritance / Srimati Basu. Decision making and flows of income and expenses among households with factory employed members / Aurora Bautista-Vistro

Migration engendered. "Male wealth" and "Claims to motherhood" : gendered resource access and intergenerational relations in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia / Lisa Cliggett. Age, masculinity and migration : gender and wage labor among Amburu pastoralists in Northern

Kenya / Jon D. Holtzman. Women in a Brazilian agricultural frontier / Andrea D. Siquiera, Steve D. McCracken, Eduardo S. Brondizio and Emilio Moran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0759102457

0759102465

OCLC:

50478419