Between field and cooking pot
Subtitle: the political economy of marketwomen in Peru
By: by Florence E. Babb..
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Texas Press sourcebooks in anthropology -- no. 15
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Women merchants -- Peru.; Peddlers and peddling -- Peru.; Women -- Employment -- Peru.; Informal sector (Economics) -- Peru.
Other titles: Marketwomen in Peru.
Description: This groundbreaking study documents the important, necessary role of marketwomen in Peru's capitalist economy. Babb focuses on the daily lives and work of the marketwomen and their strategies for combining their emergent productive and traditional reproductive roles. She also traces how the economic condition of these women and their families has declined over a 10 year period.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography, p. (219)-237.