Women, work, and gender relations in developing countries : a global perspective / edited by Parvin Ghorayshi and Claire Bélanger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghorayshi, Parvin.

Bélanger, Claire.

Series:

Contributions in sociology ; no. 118.

Contributions in sociology, 0084-9278 ; no. 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in development.

Women--Employment--Developing countries.

Women.

Women--Developing countries--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 The Study of Gender and Generational Hierarchies in the Context of Development: Methodological Aspects""; ""2 Toward Postcolonial Methodologies""; ""3 Out of Egypt: A Talk with Nawal El Saadawi""; ""4 Women Who Make the Chips""; ""5 Women in the Rural Economy in Nigeria""; ""6 The Political Economy of WomenÃŒs Work in Kenya: Chronic Constraints and Broken Barriers""; ""7 Women and Garden Produce of Kinshasa: The Difficult Quest for Autonomy""; ""8 Negotiating Ideal Womanhood in Rural Philippine Households: Work and Survival""

""9 Moral Regulation and Microlevel Politics: Implications for Women�s Work and Struggles""""10 Filipino Women and the Work of Mothering""; ""11 The Case of Mauritania: Women�s Productive Activities in Urban Areas� A Process of Empowerment""; ""12 Women Traders as Promoters of a Subsistence Perspective: The Case of Juchita� n (Oaxaca), Mexico""; ""13 Turning Acts of Borrowing into Acts of Empowerment: Self- Organization of the Annapurna Women of Bombay""; ""14 Working for Social Change: Learning from and Building upon Women�s Knowledge to Develop Economic Literacy""; ""Bibliography""

""Index""""About the Editors and Contributors""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.

ISBN:

9798216037774

9780313031687

0313031681

OCLC:

34320277