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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Women: Power, Subordination, and Development; Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Power and Subordination; Third World Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Experiences with Socialist Development; Women in Southeast Asia; Notes; 2 Laos: History, Society, and the Situation of Women; Social Context and the Situation of Women; Lao History and the Political Mobilization of Women; Equality and Policy During Socialism and Economic Liberalization; Summary; Notes; 3 Traditional Sources of Power in Rural Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Lives |
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Ethnic Lao Women and Traditional Village LifeRural Khmu and Hmong Women and Traditional Village Life; Life Cycle Variations in Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Power; Summary of Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Traditional Sources of Power; Tradition and the War Years; Notes; 4 Women of Luang Prabang; Luang Prabang Province; Impact of Socialism and Economic Liberalization on Luang Prabang Women; Rural Women and Their Villages; Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Changing Resources: Development Project Villages; Ethnic Differences in Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Responses; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Changing Agricultural Activities; Paddy Rice Farming; Upland Rice Farming |
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Gardens, Cash Crops, and AnimalsAgricultural Training and Mechanization; Agricultural Activities and Other Work; Conclusions: Women in Agriculture; Notes; 6 Forest Gathering, Crafts, and Marketing; Forest Gathering; Crafts and Other Home Production; Marketing; Coordinating Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Other Activities with Forest, Craft, and Commercial Activities; Notes; 7 Family, Home, and Children; Food, Fuel, and Water: Household Maintenance Activities; Birth, Child Care, and Patterns of Work; Family, Kin, and Community Relations; Conclusion; Notes |
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8 Politics of Gender and Development: Transformation of the Lao Womenâ#x80;#x99;s UnionOrganizing Women During the Socialist Period; Problems During the Socialist Period; Ideology: Three Goods and Two Duties; Activities of the Lao Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Union; Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Organizations and Economic Liberalization; Lao Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Union Development Activities and Staff; Transformation of the Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Union; Notes; 9 Rural Laotian Women: Work, Power, and Development; References; Index; About the Book and Author |
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Print version record |
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Women, Hmong-Social conditions
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Women, Khmu'-Social conditions
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Women, Lao-Social conditions
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Women, Hmong -- Social conditions
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Women, Lao -- Social conditions
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429968983 |
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0429968981 |
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