Gender at Work in Economic Life (Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs, V. 20.)

This new volume from SEA illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. The contributors are economic anthropologists who consider the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context, examining issues of: historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers in anthropology and in the related fields of economics, sociology of work, gender studies, women's studies, and economic development. Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology. Visit their web page. Introduction : how gender works, in the practice of theory and other social processes / Gracia Clark Concepts of gender within economic change. Archeology and the gender without history / F. Ann Pyburn. Rain and cattle : gendered structure and political economy in precolonial Pare, Tanzania / N. Thomas Hakansson. Woman-head households in agrarian societies : not just a passing phase / Evelyn Blackwood Entrepreneurs as women. Female entrepreneurship in the Caribbean : a miultisite, pilot investigation of gender and work / Katherine E. Browne. Women, modernity and the global economy : negotiating gender and economic difference in the Upland Philippines / Lynne Milgram. Between family and market : women and the new Silk Road in post-Soviet Kazakstan / Cynthia Werner Love and entitlements. Neoliberalism and newer economics of practice : gender and the politics of consciousness in a Nepalese merchant community / Katharine N. Rankin. "Why would she fight her family?" : Indian women's negotiations of discourses of inheritance / Srimati Basu. Decision making and flows of income and expenses among households with factory employed members / Aurora Bautista-Vistro Migration engendered. "Male wealth" and "Claims to motherhood" : gendered resource access and intergenerational relations in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia / Lisa Cliggett. Age, masculinity and migration : gender and wage labor among Amburu pastoralists in Northern Kenya / Jon D. Holtzman. Women in a Brazilian agricultural frontier / Andrea D. Siquiera, Steve D. McCracken, Eduardo S. Brondizio and Emilio Moran Illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. This book considers the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context. It examines issues of historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy.