Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries: A Global Perspective

by Claire Belanger, Parvin Ghorayshi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313297977
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/21/1996
Series:	Controversies in Science , #11
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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
Turbaning Acts of Borrowing into Acts of Empowerment: Self-Organization of the Annapurbana 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

Editorial Reviews

Presents 14 contributions written by sociologists, anthropologists, historians, economists, and scholars of women's and ethnic studies addressing the conditions and experiences of working women, particularly in less developed countries. Contributions address theoretical and methodological considerations; the link between structure, global economy, and everyday life; challenges to capitalist development; and social change through empowerment and self-organization. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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