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Fields, Forest, And Family - Women's Work And Power In Rural Laos (Hardcover)
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Fields, Forest, And Family - Women's Work And Power In Rural Laos (Hardcover)
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After the Vietnam War, socialist governments ascended to power in
all the countries of the former Indochina. In Laos, more than a
decade of socialist reorganization was followed by economic
liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had traditionally
sustained the household and local economy with their work in field,
forest, and family, but political and economic changes markedly
affected the context of rural women's prevailing sources of power
and subordination. Socialist policies, for example, curtailed
women's commercial activities while recognizing women's work in
agriculture and child care.In this richly detailed volume, Carol
Ireson draws on ten years of fieldwork and research to explore this
metamorphosis among Laotian women. Throughout, she poses questions
such as: What has happened to women's traditional sources of
control over their own and others' activities since the 1975
socialist revolution? Have their traditional sources of power or
autonomy expanded or contracted as changing conditions have allowed
other groups to appropriate women's traditional resources and
roles? Have the dramatic changes had different effects on rural
women of differing ethnic backgrounds and varying economic
means?Focusing on women from three major ethnic groups?the lowland
Lao, the Khmu, and the Hmong?Ireson examines the different ways
they have responded to political and economic changes. She shows us
that the Laotian experience reveals in microcosm the processes of
change toward specialization and integration of women's work into
national and global economies and explains how this shift deeply
affects women's lives.
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