Onions Are My Husband (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics.
Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wholesalers, who control the flow of important staples. Drawing on more than four years of field research, during which she worked alongside several influential market "Queens," Clark explains the economic, political, gender, and ethnic complexities involved in the operation of the marketplace and examines the resourcefulness of the market women in surviving the various hazards they routinely encounter, from "coups d'etat" to persistent sabotage of their positions from within.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	Gracia Clark
Dimensions:	227 x 159 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	488
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-10780-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-226-10780-9
Barcode:	9780226107806

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