Synopses & Reviews
Gender at Work in Economic Life 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction : how gender works, in the practice of theory and other social processes / Gracia Clark -- Concepts of gender within economic change. Archeology and the gender without history / F. Ann Pyburn. Rain and cattle : gendered structure and political economy in precolonial Pare, Tanzania / N. Thomas Hakansson. Woman-head households in agrarian societies : not just a passing phase / Evelyn Blackwood -- Entrepreneurs as women. Female entrepreneurship in the Caribbean : a miultisite, pilot investigation of gender and work / Katherine E. Browne. Women, modernity and the global economy : negotiating gender and economic difference in the Upland Philippines / Lynne Milgram. Between family and market : women and the new Silk Road in post-Soviet Kazakstan / Cynthia Werner -- Love and entitlements. Neoliberalism and newer economics of practice : gender and the politics of consciousness in a Nepalese merchant community / Katharine N. Rankin. "Why would she fight her family?" : Indian women's negotiations of discourses of inheritance / Srimati Basu. Decision making and flows of income and expenses among households with factory employed members / Aurora Bautista-Vistro -- Migration engendered. "Male wealth" and "Claims to motherhood" : gendered resource access and intergenerational relations in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia / Lisa Cliggett. Age, masculinity and migration : gender and wage labor among Amburu pastoralists in Northern Kenya / Jon D. Holtzman. Women in a Brazilian agricultural frontier / Andrea D. Siquiera, Steve D. McCracken, Eduardo S. Brondizio and Emilio Moran.