Women traders in cross-cultural perspective
Subtitle: mediating identities, marketing wares
By: Linda J. Seligmann, editor.
Contributors: Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Women merchants -- Developing countries; Markets -- Developing countries; Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions; Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
Description: "This innovative volume studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies - multisited fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and archival research - the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. Exploring the cultural identities and economic practices of women traders in ten diverse locales--Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines--the authors pay special attention to the effects of global forces, national economic policies, and nongovernmental organizations on women's participation in the market and the domestic sector. The authors also consider the impact that women's economic and political activities have on state policy, on the attitudes of different sectors of society toward female traders, and on the dynamics of the market itself. A final theme focuses on the cultural dimension of mediation"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nineteenth-century views of women's participation in Mexico's markets / Judith Marti; title: Markets as gendered domains: the Javanese pasar / Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander; title: Inside, outside, and selling on the road: women's market trading in South India / Johanna Lessinger; title: "Nursing-mother work" in Ghana: power and frustration in Akan market women's lives / Gracia Clark; title: Situating handicraft market women in Ifugao, upland Philippines: a case for multiplicity / B. Lynne Milgram; title: Gender on the market in Moroccan women's verbal art: performative spheres of feminine authority / Deborah A. Kapchan; title: Hungarian village women in the marketplace during the late socialist period / Eva V. Huseby-Darvas; title: Traditional medicines in the marketplace: identity and ethnicity among female vendors / Lynn Sikkink; title: Market/places as gendered spaces: market/women's studies over two decades / Florence E. Babb.