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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170978403321

Autore

Peake Linda <1956->

Titolo

Gender, ethnicity and place : women and identities in Guyana / / Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-74931-7

1-134-74932-5

1-280-33425-8

0-203-01504-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Altri autori (Persone)

TrotzD. Alissa <1968->

Disciplina

305.4/09881

Soggetti

Women - Guyana - Identity

Women - Guyana - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of maps, figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Methodology and reflexivity; The emergence of Guyanese women's identities; The contemporary situation of Guyanese women; Gender, ethnicity and the family in Albouystown; Globalisation and Indo-Guyanese women in Meten Meer Zorg East; Gender and sexuality among Afro-Guyanese in Linden; Women across place; Red Thread's feminism: 'A politics of the possible'?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from a feminist perspective.