Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares

by Linda J. Seligmann

Book Overview

This innovative volume studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies--multisited fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and archival research--the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. This knitting together pivots on how household practices and economies are translated and transferred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804740534
• ISBN13: 9780804740531
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"