Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia - Contradictory Pressures, Uneasy Resolutions (Hardcover)

This book addresses itself to the relationship between the ideological and material which has long occupied a primary place in Marxist scholarship and is seen to be of central importance to feminist analysis. This book looks at some aspects of the debate in the context of Asia.;In particular, it examines the role that ideology can play both as a disabling and an enabling factor in the lives of women seeking to earn a livliehood for themselves and their families under conditions of poverty.;The case studies relate to a mixed set of Asian countries, with an associated diversity of cultural and economic conditions.;Haleh Afshar is also editor of "Iran: A Revolution in Turmoil", "Women and Ideology" and "Women, State and Ideology". Bina Agarwal is editor of "Structures of Patriarchy: State, Community and Household in Modernising Asia" and author of "Mechanisation in Indian Agriculture" and "Cold Hearths and Barren Slopes: The Woodfuel Crisis in the Third World".

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1990
First published:	1989
Editors:	Haleh Afshar • B Agarwal
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-44408-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Promotions
LSN:	0-333-44408-6
Barcode:	9780333444085

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