Gender at Work in Economic Life

Gracia Clark is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in Bloomington, and received her Ph.D. from Cambridge in social anthropology. She has worked with market traders in Kumasi, Ghana since 1978. She is the author of Onions are my Husband.

• Part 1 Introduction: How Gender Works, in the Practice of Theory and Other Social ProcessesPart 2 Part I: Concepts of Gender Within Economic ChangePart 3 Chapter 1: Archaeology and the Gender Without HistoryPart 4 Chapter 2: Rain and Cattle: Gendered Structures and Political Economy in Precolonial Pare, TanzaniaPart 5 Chapter 3: Woman-headed Households in Agrarian Societies: Not Just a Passing PhasePart 6 Part II: Entrepreneurs as WomenPart 7 Chapter 4: Female Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: A Multisite, Pilot Investigation of Gender and WorkPart 8 Chapter 5: Women, Modernity, and the Global Economy: Negotiating Gender and Work in Ifugao, Upland PhilippinesPart 9 Chapter 6: Between Family and Market: Women and thew New Silk Road in Post-Soviet KazakstanPart 10 Part III: Love and EntitlementsPart 11 Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Newar Economics of Practice: Gender and the Politics of Consciousness in a Nepalese Merchant CommunityPart 12 Chapter 8: Why Would She Fight Her Family?: Indian Women's Negotiations of Discourses of InheritancePart 13 Chapter 9: Decision Making and Flows of Income and Expenses Among Households with Factory-Employed MembersPart 14 Part IV: Migration EngenderedPart 15 Chapter 10: Male Wealth and Claims to Motherhood: Gendered Resource Eaccess and Intergenerational Relations in the Gwembe Valley, ZambiaPart 16 Chapter 11: Age, Masculinity and Migration: Gender and Wage Labor Among Samburu Pastoralists in Northern KenyaPart 17 Chapter 12: Women in a Brazilian Agricultural Frontier

This is a very interesting and important collection of articles...what unites these papers and makes them particularly interesting is threefold: all question assumptions that have been made about gendered organization and work; all do more than simply point out those assumptions, providing a re-analysis in each particular area; and all firmly ground their analyses in concrete data. It is not only this last which sets them apart from recent cultural studies, but also the fact that they do not seem to sacrifice more perceptive and nuanced interpretations in the process...[the articles] all show that it is in fact possible to do sensitive research that is underpinned by data.All of them not only provide useful critiques of previous approaches, but also move the discipline forward by adding new analyses to it.