Field, forest, and family : women's work and power in rural Laos /

Field, forest, and family : women's work and power in rural Laos /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ireson-Doolittle, Carol
Imprint:	Boulder, Colo : Westview Press, 1996.
Description:	xxiii, 285 p.
Language:	English
Subject:	Women, Hmong -- Social conditions. Women, Lao -- Social conditions. Women, Khmu' -- Social conditions. Sex role -- Laos -- Louangphrabang (Province) Social change -- Laos -- Louangphrabang (Province) Economic history. Sex role. Social change. Social conditions. Women, Hmong -- Social conditions. Women, Lao -- Social conditions. Louangphrabang (Laos : Province) -- Social conditions. Louangphrabang (Laos : Province) -- Economic conditions. Laos -- Louangphrabang (Province)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2526585

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	0813389364 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Women: Power, Subordination And Development
2. Laos: History, Society And the Situation of Women
3. Traditional Sources of Power In Rural Women's Lives
4. Women of Luang Prabang
Notes
5. Women's Changing Agricultural Activities
Notes
6. Forest Gathering, Crafts, and Marketing
7. Family, Home, and Children
Notes
8. Politics of Gender and Development Transformation of the Lao Women's Union
9. Rural Laotian Women Work, Power, and Development
References
Index