The two-headed household : gender and rural development in the Ecuadorean Andes / Sarah Hamilton. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Sarah, 1946-

Series:

Pitt Latin American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Ecuador--Hacienda Chanchaló--Economic conditions.

Indian women.

Indian women--Ecuador--Hacienda Chanchaló--Social conditions.

Indians of South America--Agriculture--Ecuador--Hacienda Chanchaló.

Indians of South America.

Rural development--Ecuador--Hacienda Chanchaló.

Rural development.

Sex role--Economic aspects--Ecuador--Hacienda Chanchaló.

Sex role.

Sex discrimination against women--Ecuador--Hacienda Chanchaló.

Sex discrimination against women.

Hacienda Chanchaló (Ecuador)--Economic conditions.

Hacienda Chanchaló (Ecuador).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 296 p. ) ill., map ;

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998.

Contents:

Gender and rural development

An introduction to Chanchaló

Managers, mothers, maiden, and matriarch : five women and their families

Women's work : production and reproduction in Cantón Salcedo

Women's control of household economic resources : the range of variation in Cantón Salcedo

The power of balance : structural and ideological foundations of the two-headed household

Gender and economic change in Cantón Salcedo : the myth of the masculine market

Development and the two-headed household : lessons learned in Chanchaló.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-290) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-04404-X