Gender at work in economic life /
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| Imprint: | Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press : Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology, c2003. |
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| Description: | xvii, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) monographs ; v. 20 Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 20. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4967187 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How Gender Works, in the Practice of Theory and Other Social Processes
- Part I. Concepts of Gender within Economic Change
- 1. Archaeology and the Gender without History
- 2. Rain and Cattle: Gendered Structures and Political Economy in Precolonial Pare, Tanzania
- 3. Woman-Headed Households in Agrarian Societies: Not Just a Passing Phase
- Part II. Entrepreneurs as Women
- 4. Female Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: A Multisited, Pilot Investigation of Gender and Work
- 5. Women, Modernity, and the Global Economy: Negotiating Gender and Economic Difference in Ifugao, Upland Philippines
- 6. Between Family and Market: Women and the New Silk Road in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
- Part III. Love and Entitlements
- 7. Neoliberalism and Newar Economics of Practice: Gender and the Politics of Consciousness in a Neplaese Merchant Community
- 8. "Why Would She Fight Her Family?" Indian Women's Negotiations of Discourses of Inheritance
- 9. Decision Making and Flows of Income and Expenses among Households with Factory-Employed Members
- Part IV. Migration Engendered
- 10. "Male Wealth" and "Claims to Motherhood": Gendered Resource Access and Intergenerational Relations in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia
- 11. Age, Masculinity, and Migration: Gender and Wage Labor among Samburu Pastoralists in Northern Kenya
- 12. Women and Work in a Brazilian Agricultural Frontier
- Index
- About the Contributors
- About the Editor
