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: 9780759102460
• ISBN10: 0759102465
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-03
• 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	p. vii
Introduction: How Gender Works, in the Practice of Theory and Other Social Processes	p. ix
Concepts of Gender within Economic Change
Archaeology and the Gender without History	p. 3
Rain and Cattle: Gendered Structures and Political Economy in Precolonial Pare, Tanzania	p. 19
Woman-Headed Households in Agrarian Societies: Not Just a Passing Phase	p. 41
Entrepreneurs as Women
Female Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: A Multisited, Pilot Investigation of Gender and Work	p. 63
Women, Modernity, and the Global Economy: Negotiating Gender and Economic Difference in Ifugao, Upland Philippines	p. 95
Between Family and Market: Women and the New Silk Road in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	p. 115
Love and Entitlements
Neoliberalism and Newar Economics of Practice: Gender and the Politics of Consciousness in a Neplaese Merchant Community	p. 127
"Why Would She Fight Her Family?" Indian Women's Negotiations of Discourses of Inheritance	p. 147
Decision Making and Flows of Income and Expenses among Households with Factory-Employed Members	p. 185
Migration Engendered
"Male Wealth" and "Claims to Motherhood": Gendered Resource Access and Intergenerational Relations in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia	p. 207
Age, Masculinity, and Migration: Gender and Wage Labor among Samburu Pastoralists in Northern Kenya	p. 225
Women and Work in a Brazilian Agricultural Frontier	p. 243
Index	p. 269
About the Contributors	p. 273
About the Editor	p. 277
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