1st Edition
Fields, Forest, And Family Women's Work And Power In Rural Laos
By Carol Ireson
Copyright 1996
312 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
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After the Vietnam War, socialist governments ascended to power in all the countries of the former Indochina. In Laos, more than a decade of socialist reorganization was followed by economic liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had traditionally sustained the household and local economy with their work in field, forest, and family, but political and economic changes markedly affected the... Read more
* Women: Power, Subordination, and Development * Laos: History, Society, and the Situation of Women * Traditional Sources of Power in Rural Womens Lives * Women of Luang Prabang * Womens Changing Agricultural Activities * Forest Gathering, Crafts, and Marketing * Family, Home, and Children * Politics of Gender and Development: Transformation of the Lao Womens Union * Rural Laotian Women: Work, Power, and Development
Biography
Carol Ireson
