Onions are my husband : survival and accumulation by West African market women / / Gracia Clark

• Autore: Clark Gracia
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.40966
• Soggetto topico: Women merchants - Ghana - Kumasi; Markets - Ghana - Kumasi; Women, Ashanti - Ghana - Kumasi - Economic conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Kumasi (Ghana) Commerce
• Soggetto non controllato: survival, 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-453) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Onions are my husband
• ISBN: 1-282-53871-3; 9786612538711; 0-226-10776-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248205303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno