Claire Belanger, Parvin Ghorayshi

Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries

A Global Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780313297977
• ISBN-10: 0313297975
• Artikelnr.: 21644419

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Juchitán
(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