The Lao
Subtitle: Gender, Power, and Livelihood (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: August 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780813340630
Subjects: Gender Studies; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Women, Lao; Social Science; Employment; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; Laos; Thailand; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Sex role; Social Science / Women's Studies; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Economic conditions; Sociology - Rural; Sexual division of labor
First sentence: Even in Southeast Asia, where women have commonly enjoyed respect and a variety of rights, explosive transformations are subverting their prerogatives and altering gender relations.