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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anita Spring |
| ISBN: | 1555878695 9781555878696 |
| OCLC Number: | 43385029 |
| Description: | xii, 419 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Commercialization and women farmers: old paradigms and new themes / Anita Spring -- The differential effects of capitalism and patriarchy on women farmers' access to markets in Cameroon / Deborah L. Roos and Christina H. Gladwin -- The myth of the masculine market: gender and agricultural commercialization in the Ecuadorean Andes / Sarah Hamilton -- Extrahousehold norms and intrahousehold bargaining: gender in Sudan and Burkina Faso / Michael Kevane -- Income, productivity, and evolving gender relations in two Tahitian islands / Victoria S. Lockwood -- Women are good with money: the impact of cash cropping on class relations and gender ideology in Northern Luzon, the Philippines / Villia Jefremovas -- Kofyar women who get ahead: incentives for agricultural commercialization in Nigeria / M. Priscilla Stone and Glenn Davis Stone -- Women farmers, small plots, and changing markets in China / Laurel Bossen -- The fields are full of gold: women's marketing of wild foods from rice fields in Southeast Asia and the impacts of pesticides and integrated pest management / Lisa Leimar Price -- Does gender matter for the nutritional consequences of agricultural commercialization? intrahousehold transfers, food acquisition, and export cropping in Guatemala / Elizabeth Katz -- Entrepreneurs and family well-being: women's agricultural and trading strategies in Cameroon / Judith Krieger -- Small-scale traders' key role in stabilizing and diversifying Ghana's rural communities and livelihoods / Gracia Clark -- Men, women, and cotton: contract agriculture for subsistence farmers in Northern Ghana / Alexandra Wilson -- Women and export agriculture: the case of banana production on St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean / Lawrence S. Grossman -- Agricultural commercialization and women farmers in Kenya / Anita Spring -- The importance of gender issues in revitalizing commercial agriculture in Suriname / Gwen Smith and Della E. McMillan -- Sweet and sour grapes:the struggles of seasonal women workers in Chile / Lynn Stephen -- Epilogue: next steps / Anita Spring. |
| Series Title: | Directions in applied anthropology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Anita Spring. |
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