Women traders in cross-cultural perspective : mediating identities, marketing wares / Linda J. Seligmann, editor.

Other author Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxiii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women merchants--Developing countries.
Markets--Developing countries.
Women--Developing countries. --Economic conditions.
Women--Developing countries. --Social conditions.

Contents Nineteenth-century views of women's participation in Mexico's markets / Judith Marti -- Markets as gendered domains: the Javanese pasar / Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander -- Inside, outside, and selling on the road: women's market trading in South India / Johanna Lessinger -- "Nursing-mother work" in Ghana: power and frustration in Akan market women's lives / Gracia Clark -- Situating handicraft market women in Ifugao, upland Philippines: a case for multiplicity / B. Lynne Milgram -- Gender on the market in Moroccan women's verbal art: performative spheres of feminine authority / Deborah A. Kapchan -- Hungarian village women in the marketplace during the late socialist period / Eva V. Huseby-Darvas -- Traditional medicines in the marketplace: identity and ethnicity among female vendors / Lynn Sikkink -- Market/places as gendered spaces: market/women's studies over two decades / Florence E. Babb.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-297) and index.
LCCN 00059509
ISBN0804740526 (alk. paper)
ISBN0804740534 (paper : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HF4055 .W66 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold