03844nam 2200697Ia 450 991079237590332120200520144314.01-282-53871-397866125387110-226-10776-010.7208/9780226107769(CKB)2670000000009711(EBL)488096(OCoLC)609856876(SSID)ssj0000363926(PQKBManifestationID)11248653(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000363926(PQKBWorkID)10395705(PQKB)10815869(MiAaPQ)EBC488096(DE-B1597)535604(OCoLC)1135590468(DE-B1597)9780226107769(Au-PeEL)EBL488096(CaPaEBR)ebr10366812(CaONFJC)MIL253871(dli)HEB04123(MiU)MIU01000000000000009771536(EXLCZ)99267000000000971119940207d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOnions are my husband[electronic resource] survival and accumulation by West African market women /Gracia ClarkChicago University of Chicago Pressc19941 online resource (510 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-10779-5 0-226-10780-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-453) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Stepping into the Market -- 2. The Regional Web -- 3. Persistent Transformation -- 4. Buying and Selling -- 5. Control of Resources -- 6. "We Know Ourselves" -- 7. Queens of Negotiation -- 8. Multiple Identities -- 9. Home and Husband -- 10. The Market under Attack -- 11. Surviving the Peace -- Appendix: Survey Methodology -- References -- IndexIn 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.Women merchantsGhanaKumasiMarketsGhanaKumasiWomen, AshantiGhanaKumasiEconomic conditionsKumasi (Ghana)Commercesurvival, accumulation, west africa, western, african, marketplace, market, womens issues, women, woman, female, feminism, analysis, critical, open air, study, kumasi, ghana, social studies, society, community, dynamics, manufactured, wholesale, fieldwork, research, academic, scholarly, economic, political, gender, ethnic, ethnicity, politics, economy, daily life.Women merchantsMarketsWomen, AshantiEconomic conditions.305.40966Clark Gracia868132MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792375903321Onions are my husband1938025UNINA