Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries: A Global Perspective (Contributions in Sociology)

✍ Scribed by Parvin Ghorayshi, Claire Belanger

• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 16
PART I: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations......Page 18
1. The Study of Gender and Generational Hierarchies in the Context of Development: Methodological Aspects Marie France Labrecque......Page 20
2. Toward Postcolonial Methodologies Lynne Phillips......Page 32
3. Out of Egypt: A Talk with Nawal El Saadawi Tiffany R. Patterson and Angela M. Gilliam......Page 48
PART II: The Link Between Structure, Global Economy, and the Everyday Life......Page 58
4. Women Who Make the Chips Les Levidow......Page 60
5. Women in the Rural Economy in Nigeria Christiana E. E. Okojie......Page 74
6. The Political Economy of Women’s Work in Kenya: Chronic Constraints and Broken Barriers Collette Suda......Page 92
7. Women and Garden Produce of Kinshasa: The Difficult Quest for Autonomy Gertrude Mianda......Page 108
8. Negotiating Ideal Womanhood in Rural Philippine Households: Work and Survival Tuula Heinonen......Page 120
9. Moral Regulation and Microlevel Politics: Implications for Women’s Work and Struggles Suzan M. Ilcan......Page 132
10. Filipino Women and the Work of Mothering Delia D. Aguilar......Page 150
PART III: A Challenge to Capitalist Development......Page 166
11. The Case of Mauritania: Women’s Productive Activities in Urban Areas—A Process of Empowerment Gisèle Simard......Page 168
12. Women Traders as Promoters of a Subsistence Perspective: The Case of Juchitán (Oaxaca), Mexico Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen......Page 184
PART IV: Social Change Through Empowerment and Self-Organization......Page 198
13. Turning Acts of Borrowing into Acts of Empowerment: Self-Organization of the Annapurna Women of Bombay Dina Abbott......Page 200
14. Working for Social Change: Learning from and Building upon Women’s Knowledge to Develop Economic Literacy Mary Morgan......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 226
Index......Page 246
About the Editors and Contributors......Page 260