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6%OFFWilma A. Dunaway (Ed.) - Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women´s Work and Households in Global Production - 9780804789080 - V9780804789080
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Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women´s Work and Households in Global Production

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Description for Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women´s Work and Households in Global Production Paperback. Focuses on women and households as significant productive units of global production systems and brings gender and social reproduction into the theoretical center of global commodity and value chain analysis. Editor(s): Dunaway, Wilma A. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; KCM; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site of production. In affirming the importance of women's work in global production, this cutting-edge volume fills an important gender gap in the field of global commodity and value chain analysis.With thirteen chapters by an international group of scholars from sociology, anthropology, economics, women's studies, and geography, this volume begins with an eye-opening feminist critique of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804789080
SKU
V9780804789080
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About Wilma A. Dunaway (Ed.)
Wilma A. Dunaway is Professor of Sociology in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. She is the author of four books, including most recently Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (2008).

Reviews for Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women´s Work and Households in Global Production
"A collective project between Virginia Tech and SUNY Binghamton, original essays from both novice researchers and senior scholars use ethnographic, archival, and some social survey data to provide alternatives to neoclassical and neoliberal economic analysis . . . Recommended."
G. M. Massey
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