Carol Ireson-Doolittle

The Lao (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Power, And Livelihood

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Produktbeschreibung

The Lao discusses culture and village life in Laos, exploring topics of kinship and family, gender relations, households, religion, livelihood strategies, and ethnicity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429964916
• Artikelnr.: 56862049

Autorenporträt

CAROL J. IRESON-DOOLITTLE is Professor of Sociology at Willamette University and the author of Field, Forest, and Family: Women's Work and Tower in Rural Laos (Westview 1996). Her research and teaching interests focus on gender, development and globalization, and Asia. She first worked in Laos as a volunteer in the late 1960s, and has lived and worked in Laos as a development worker and researcher numerous times since then. GERALDINE MORENO-BLACK is a nutritional anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Her research interests focus on gender and issues of food security, nutritional status, and health. She has worked for more than 15 years in Thailand doing research in the Thai-Lao region of the Northeast (Isan) and more recently with industrial workers in the industrial area southeast of Bangkok. She and Ireson-Doolittle have begun a study of women-owned textile businesses located in Vientiane, Laos, and selling in international markets.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables and Figures
Series Editor Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Women
Livelihood
and Social Change
THE PERSISTENT QUESTIONS
How WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW: FIELDWORK IN LAOS
THE REST OF THE BOOK
Laos: Historical Contexts
LAOS: RECENT HISTORY AND NATIONAL CONTEXT
PATTERNED GENDER INEQUALITIES AND LAO WOMEN
GENDER
SOCIALISM
AND SOCIAL CHANGE
EQUALITY AND NATIONAL POLICIES
1975-1995
CONCLUSION
Laos: Village Contexts
THE RURAL HOUSEHOLD AND HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY
VILLAGE UNITY
VILLAGE LIFE DURING THE WAR YEARS
VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT
CONCLUSION
Family
Home
Children
and Change
FAMILY AND KIN RELATIONS
GIVING BIRTH AND RAISING CHILDREN
SOCIALISM AND EARLY ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION: EFFECTS ON FAMILY LIFE
CONCLUSION
Making a Living from the Land: Economics
Gender
and Power
THE AGRICULTURAL CYCLE: CELEBRATION AND CULTIVATION
CHANGING AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES: SOCIALIST REORGANIZATION (1975-1988)
CHANGING AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES: EARLY ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION (1988-1995)
CONCLUSION
Making a Living in Commerce: Textiles
TEXTILE PRODUCTION
TEXTILE BUSINESSES
CONCLUSION
Gender
Ethnicity
and Development in Luang Prabang THREE STORIES:THE WOMEN AND THEIR VILLAGES
THE LUANG PRABANG WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
CONCLUSION
Women and Social Change Among the Lao
HISTORICAL FACTORS
SOCIAL CHANGE
GLOBAL-LOCAL LINKAGES
SENSE OF AGENCY
Glossary
References
Index