The political economy of gender: women and the sexual division of labour in the Philippines

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth U. Eviota

Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Book by Eviota, Elizabeth Uy

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page iii)
Preface (page v)
PART I: CONTOURS OF THE DISCUSSION (page 1)
1. Sex, Gender and Society (page 3)
2. Gender and Political Economy (page 11)
3. Sexuality, Ideology and Cultural Practice (page 21)
PART II: THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR IN THE PHILIPPINES: PRE-COLONIAL AND COLONIAL LEGACIES (page 31)
4. The pre-Hispanic Period (page 33)
5. The Philippines under Spain: the first centuries (1521-1750) (page 38)
6. Spain's Last 150 Years: the development of export crops and the commercialization of the economy (page 47)
7. The Philippines under American rule: 1901-42, 1945-46 (page 63)
PART III: THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR IN THE POST-COLONIAL PERIOD (1946-89) (page 77)
8. Work, Wages, Ideology and Women's Responses: An Overview (page 79)
9. Women's Work: Some Contemporary Configurations (1) (page 98)
10. Women's Work: Some Contemporary Configurations (2) (page 129)
11. Class, Family, State and Development (page 150)
PART IV: GENDER AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION (page 165)
12. Gender subordination: historical and contemporary (page 167)
Notes (page 177)
Bibliography (page 193)
Index (page 207)

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