Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java - Couverture rigide

Wolf, Diane L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520070720 ISBN 13 : 9780520070721

Editeur : University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Taking the reader inside the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they labour, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints and changes in women's lives in the Third World. She debunks conventional wisdom about the patriarchal family, while at the same time clearly identifying the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change and industrialization in rural Java. "Factory Daughters" is distinguished by wide-ranging fieldwork in Java and a combination of narratives, rigorous surveys and quantitative analysis. In bringing us the words of many Javanese women, Wolf is able to vividly portray the ways they negotiate employment, income and marriage decisions through the webs of family obligations. The result is an original, effective contribution that deepens our understanding of industrialization and family life in the Third World.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Diane Lauren Wolf is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520070720
• ISBN 13: 9780520070721
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 338
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• Personne responsable: non disponible