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

• Autore: Peake Linda <1956->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/09881
• Soggetto topico: Women - Guyana - Identity; Women - Guyana - Social conditions
• Altri autori: TrotzD. Alissa <1968->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, ethnicity and place
• ISBN: 1-134-74931-7; 1-134-74932-5; 1-280-33425-8; 0-203-01504-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170978403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Development and Society