Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares
“This book is a diverse yet surprisingly comprehensive examinationof women’s experiences as traders indifferent anthropological settings. The analytic traditions used vary, but what unites the essays is that the authors’ overall concernis to show how gender ideologies and women’s market participationinteract in ways that wehave scarcely understood until now.”—Susan Russell, northern Illinois University\ “A compilation which delves into new areas of ethnographic research and makes significant...
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This innovative volume studies women traders as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in ten diverse locales—Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines. Its focus is on how these women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. Booknews Studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets in countries including Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, and Morocco. Demonstrates how women move between household and marketplace activities, showing how household practices and economies are translated and transferred to the market and how market practices and economic principles become integral to the household, and considers the impact that women's economic and political activities have on state policy. Special attention is paid to the effects of global forces, national economic policies, and NGOs on women's participation in the market. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceAbout the AuthorsIntroduction: Mediating Identities and Marketing Wares1Pt. IGender Ideologies, Household Models, and Market Dynamics1Nineteenth-Century Views of Women's Participation in Mexico's Markets272Markets as Gendered Domains: The Javanese Pasar47Pt. IIFields of Power3Inside, Outside, and Selling on the Road: Women's Market Trading in South India734"Nursing-Mother Work" in Ghana: Power and Frustration in Akan Market Women's Lives103Pt. IIIIdentity, Economy, and Survival in the Marketplace5Situating Handicraft Market Women in Ifugao, Upland Philippines: A Case for Multiplicity1296Gender on the Market in Moroccan Women's Verbal Art: Performative Spheres of Feminine Authority1617Hungarian Village Women in the Marketplace During the Late Socialist Period1858Traditional Medicines in the Marketplace: Identity and Ethnicity Among Female Vendors209Pt. IVResearch Agendas9Market/places as Gendered Spaces: Market/women's Studies over Two Decades229Conclusion: Future Research Directions241Notes253References271Index299
\ BooknewsStudies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets in countries including Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, and Morocco. Demonstrates how women move between household and marketplace activities, showing how household practices and economies are translated and transferred to the market and how market practices and economic principles become integral to the household, and considers the impact that women's economic and political activities have on state policy. Special attention is paid to the effects of global forces, national economic policies, and NGOs on women's participation in the market. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
