Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries

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Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries is written by Claire Bélanger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0313031681 (ISBN 10) and 9780313031687 (ISBN 13).

The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender relations that is at once multidisciplinary and feminist. Women's work in the household, agriculture, industry, and in the so-called informal sector is explored with a concern for the ways in which gender, class, and ethnicity are constructed by the larger socioeconomic structures in which women live. By taking concrete analyses of women's lives as their point of departure, the contributors to this volume strive to bridge the gap between socio-economic structure of the society and the actual circumstances in which women find themselves. In this way, readers and scholars alike are better able to untangle the complex dynamics of gender relations and to develop strategies for social change.