Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries

PARVIN GHORAYSHI is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. Her previous publications include Women and Work in Developing Countries: An Annotated Bibliography, (Greenwood Press, 1994) which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Book for 1994.CLAIRE BÉLANGER is Programme Officer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Ottawa, Canada.

• Preface Theoretical and Methodological Considerations The Study of Gender and Generational Hierarchies in the Context of Development: Methodological Aspects by Marie France Labrecque Toward Postcolonial Methodologies by Lynn Phillips Out of Egypt: A Talk with Nawal El Saadawi by Tiffany R. Patterson and Angela M. Gilliam The Link Between Structure, Global Economy and the Everyday Life Women Who Make the Chips by Les Lewidow Women in the Rural Economy in Nigeria by Christiana E. E. Okojie The Political Economy of Women's Work in Kenya: Chronic Constraints and Broken Barriers by Collete Suda Women and Garden Produce of Kinshasa: The Difficult Quest for Autonomy by Gertrude Mianda Negotiating Ideal Womanhood in Rural Philippine Households: Work and Survival by Tuula Heinonen Moral Regulation and Microlevel Politics: Women's Work and Struggles in Rural Turkey by Suzan M. Ilcan Filipino Women and the Work of Mothering by Delia D. Aguilar A Challenge to Capitalist Development The Case of Mauritania: Women's Productive Activities in Urban Areas--A Process of Empowerment Women Traders as Promoters of a Subsistence Perspective: The Case of Juchitan (Oaxaca), Mexico by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen Social Change Through Empowerment and Self-Organization Turning Acts of Borrowing into Acts of Empowerment: Self-Organization of the Annapurna Women of Bombay by Dina Abbott Working for Social Change: Learning from and Building Women's Knowledge to Develop Economic Literacy by Mary Morgan Bibliography Author Index Subject Index