African Market Women : Seven Life Stories from Ghana /

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In these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on a global scale. Many work at the intersection...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Gracia
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women merchants.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Market towns.
Economic history.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Femmes achanti > Ghāna > Kumasi > Conditions sociales.
Femmes achanti > Ghāna > Kumasi > Conditions economiques.
Commerçantes > Ghāna > Kumasi.
Bourgs (Marches) > Ghāna > Kumasi.
Women, Ashanti > Ghana > Kumasi > Social conditions.
Women, Ashanti > Ghana > Kumasi > Economic conditions.
Women, Akan > Ghana > Kumasi > Social conditions.
Women, Akan > Ghana > Kumasi > Economic conditions.
Women merchants > Ghana > Kumasi.
Market towns > Ghana > Kumasi.
Ghana > Kumasi.
Kumasi (Ghana) > Social conditions.
Kumasi (Ghana) > Economic conditions.
Kumasi (Ghana) > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on a global scale. Many work at the intersection of sophisticated networks of transnational commerce and migration. They have dramatic memories of independence and the growth of their new nation, including political rivalries, price controls, and violent raids on the market. The experiences of these women give substance to their reflections on globalization, capital accumulation, colonialism, technological change, environmental degradation, teenage pregnancy, marriage, children, changing gender roles, and spirituality. Clark's commentary illuminates the complex historical and cultural setting of these deeply revealing lives.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages): ill., maps
ISBN:9780253027443

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