Gender at Work in Economic Life

by Clark, Gracia; Bautista-Vistro, Aurora; Basu, Srimati; Blackwood, Evelyn; Browne, Katherine E.; Clark, Gracia; Cliggett, Lisa; Hakansson, N Thomas; Holtzman, Jon D.; McCracken, Steve D.; Milgram, B Lynne; Moran, Emilio; Pyburn, K Ann; Rankin, Katharine N.

• ISBN13: 9780759102453
• ISBN10: 0759102457
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-08
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

This new volume from SEA illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. The contributors are economic anthropologists who consider the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context, examining issues of: historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers in anthropology and in the related fields of economics, sociology of work, gender studies, women's studies, and economic development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: How Gender Works, in the Practice of Theory and Other Social Processes	ix
GRACIA CLARK
PART I: CONCEPTS OF GENDER WITHIN ECONOMIC CHANGE
1 Archaeology and the Gender without History	3	(16)
K. ANNE PYBURN
2 Rain and Cattle: Gendered Structures and Political Economy in Precolonial Pare, Tanzania	19	(22)
N. THOMAS HÅKANSSON
3 Woman-Headed Households in Agrarian Societies: Not Just a Passing Phase	41	(22)
EVELYN BLACKWOOD
PART II: ENTREPRENEURS AS WOMEN
4 Female Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: A Multisited, Pilot Investigation of Gender and Work	63	(32)
KATHERINE E. BROWNE
5 Women, Modernity, and the Global Economy: Negotiating Gender and Economic Difference in Ifugao, Upland Philippines	95	(20)
B. LYNNE MILGRAM
6 Between Family and Market: Women and the New Silk Road in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	115	(12)
CYNTHIA WERNER
PART III: LOVE AND ENTITLEMENTS
7 Neoliberalism and Newar Economics of Practice: Gender and the Politics of Consciousness in a Nepalese Merchant Community	127	(20)
KATHARINE N. RANKIN
8 "Why Would She Fight Her Family?" Indian Women's Negotiations of Discourses of Inheritance	147	(38)
SRIMATI BASU
9 Decision Making and Flows of Income and Expenses among Households with Factory-Employed Members	185	(22)
AURORA BAUTISTA-VISTRO
PART IV: MIGRATION ENGENDERED
10 "Male Wealth" and "Claims to Motherhood": Gendered Resource Access and Intergenerational Relations in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia	207	(18)
LISA CLIGGETT
11 Age, Masculinity, and Migration: Gender and Wage Labor among Samburu Pastoralists in Northern Kenya	225	(18)
JON D. HOLTZMAN
12 Women and Work in a Brazilian Agricultural Frontier	243	(26)
ANDRÉA D. SIQUEIRA, STEPHEN D. MCCRACKEN, EDUARDO S. BRONDIZIO, AND EMILIO F. MORAN
Index	269	(4)
About the Contributors	273	(4)
About the Editor	277