Higglers in Kingston : women's informal work in Jamaica /
Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to rea...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Assessing the "whole of informality"
- Intersectionality and the politics of embodiment
- Higglering : a woman's domain?
- "Baits of Satan?" : representations of Sunday/Negro markets and higgerling in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence
- "Natural rebels" or just plain nuisances? : representations of higglers in the Jamaican economy from slavery to independence
- Higgler/ICI/business woman : what's in a name?
- Dirty and dis/eased : bodies, public space and Afro-Jamaican higglers
- Conclusion: Understanding the nuances of informality.