The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes

by Sarah Hamilton

Book Overview

The Two-Headed Household is an ethnographic account of gender relations and intrahousehold decisionmaking as well as a policy-oriented study of gender and development in the indigenous Andean community of Chanchalo, Ecuador. Hamilton s main argument is that the households in these farming communities are \u201ctwo-headed.\u201d Men and women participate equally in agricultural production and management, in household decisionmaking, and share in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956772
• ISBN13: 9780822956778
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"