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Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise
This book presents a feminist critique and reconstruction of the political economy of contemporary family farming at a time when the significance of household and kinship to the organisation of production and work in advanced industrial countries is being more widely reassessed. Focusing on the social construction of women as 'farm wives', the book challenges the prevailing invisibility of women in farming and segregated analysis of home and work.
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Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise
This book presents a feminist critique and reconstruction of the political economy of contemporary family farming at a time when the significance of household and kinship to the organisation of production and work in advanced industrial countries is being more widely reassessed. Focusing on the social construction of women as 'farm wives', the book challenges the prevailing invisibility of women in farming and segregated analysis of home and work.
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Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise

Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise

by Sarah Whatmore
Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise

Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise

by Sarah Whatmore

Overview

This book presents a feminist critique and reconstruction of the political economy of contemporary family farming at a time when the significance of household and kinship to the organisation of production and work in advanced industrial countries is being more widely reassessed. Focusing on the social construction of women as 'farm wives', the book challenges the prevailing invisibility of women in farming and segregated analysis of home and work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349116171
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/1991
Edition description: 1st ed. 1991
Pages: 189
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Map: Geographical Location of the Study Areas - List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface and Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Family Farming - A Feminist Reconstruction - Theory into Practice - Women's Work and Property - 'Being the Farmer's Wife' - The Domestic Political Economy of Six Family Farms - Conclusions - Appendix 1: Survey Questionnaire - Notes - References - Bibliography - Index
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