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African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana

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Description for African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana Paperback.

In these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on a global scale. Many work at the intersection of sophisticated networks of transnational commerce and migration. They have dramatic memories of independence and the growth of their new nation, including political rivalries, price controls, and violent raids on the market. The experiences of these women give substance to their reflections on globalization, capital accumulation, colonialism, technological change, environmental degradation, teenage ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221544
SKU
V9780253221544
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Gracia C. Clark
Gracia Clark is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women and has edited several volumes dealing with gender and economic life in West Africa.

Reviews for African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana
Clark . . . offers intriguing insights into the lives of seven Akan women traders. . . . Recommended.
Choice
Overall, this is an excellent book: it will be useful in undergraduate teaching and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the richness and variety of women's lives in West Africa.
Journal of Africa
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