Higglers in Kingston : women's informal work in Jamaica / Winnifred Brown-Glaude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown-Glaude, Winnifred R., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street vendors--Jamaica--Kingston.

Street vendors.

Women merchants--Jamaica--Kingston.

Women merchants.

Social status--Jamaica--Kingston.

Social status.

Small business--Jamaica--Kingston.

Small business.

Informal sector (Economics)--Jamaica--Kingston.

Informal sector (Economics).

Women's studies--Jamaica--Kingston.

Women's studies.

Jamaica--Kingston.

Physical Description:

xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2011]

Summary:

From her childhood in Jamaica, Brown-Glaude (African American studies, College of New Jersey) has a nostalgic fondness for "higglers," a term used by Jamaicans to refer to lower-class' women street vendors. In this Black feminist study, she situates the experiences of these micro-entrepreneurs, both traditional market women and modern informal commercial importers, in the contexts of Kingston's informal economy, history of slavery and prejudices, mostly unflattering representations of higglers, and how the construction of gender intersects with race and class. The book includes several illustrations and a list of the higglers interviewed. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: Assessing the "whole of informality"

Intersectionality and the politics of embodiment

Higglering : a woman's domain?

"Baits of Satan?" : representations of Sunday/Negro markets and higgerling in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence

"Natural rebels" or just plain nuisances? : representations of higglers in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence

Higgler/ICI/business woman : what's in a name?

Dirty and dis/eased : bodies, public space and Afro-Jamaican higglers

Conclusion: Understanding the nuances of informality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826517654

082651765X

OCLC:

668990518