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 to the market, as well as how market practices and
economic principles become integral to the nature and construction
of the household.
Exploring the cultural identities and economic practices of women
traders in ten diverse locales--Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, India,
Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, and the
Philippines--the authors pay special attention to the effects of
global forces, national economic policies, and nongovernmental
organizations on women's participation in the market and the
domestic sector. The authors also consider the impact that women's
economic and political activities--in social movements, public
protests, and more hidden kinds of subversive behavior--have on
state policy, on the attitudes of different sectors of society
toward female traders, and on the dynamics of the market itself.
A final theme focuses on the cultural dimension of mediation. Many
women traders straddle cultural spheres and move back and forth
between them. Does this affect their participation in the market
and their identities? How do ties of ethnicity or acts of
reciprocity affect the nature of commodity exchanges? Do they
create exchanges that are neither purely commodified nor wholly
without calculation? Or is it more often the case that ethnic
commonalities and reciprocity merely mask the commodification of
social and economic exchanges? Does this straddling lead to the
emergence of new kinds of hybrid identities and practices? In
considering these questions, the authors specify the ways in which
consumers contribute to identity formation among market women.
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