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• catalog abstract ""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.".
• catalog contributor b12017564.
• catalog contributor b12017565.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog 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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-297) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 308 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0804740526 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0804740534 (paper : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Developing countries".
• catalog spatial "Developing countries.".
• catalog subject "381/.1/082 21".
• catalog subject "HF4055 .W66 2001".
• catalog subject "Markets Developing countries Congresses.".
• catalog subject "Markets Developing countries.".
• catalog subject "Merchants Developing countries Congresses.".
• catalog subject "Women Developing countries Economic conditions Congresses.".
• catalog subject "Women Developing countries Economic conditions.".
• catalog subject "Women Developing countries Social conditions Congresses.".
• catalog subject "Women Developing countries Social conditions.".
• catalog subject "Women merchants Developing countries Congresses.".
• catalog subject "Women merchants Developing countries.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "Women traders in cross-cultural perspective : mediating identities, marketing wares / Linda J. Seligmann, editor.".
• catalog type "text".