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Author Eviota, Elizabeth U., author.

Title The political economy of gender : women and the sexual division of labour in the Philippines / Elizabeth Uy Eviota
Published London ; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : Zed Books, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages)
Contents pt. I. Contours of the Discussion. 1. Sex, Gender and Society. Sex and gender. A search for origins. Perspective. 2. Gender and Political Economy. The sexual division of labour and capitalism. Philippine political economy and the labour process. 3. Sexuality, Ideology and Cultural Practice. The social construction of sexuality. Sexuality and social change. The realm of meanings. State and ideology. The sexual division of labour, sexuality and ideology -- pt. II. The Sexual Division of Labour in the Philippines: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Legacies. 4. The pre-Hispanic Period. Social arrangements. Gender relations: some observations. 5. The Philippines under Spain: the first centuries (1521-1750). Political and religious colonization. The Chinese in Philippine life. Colonization, gender differentiation and Filipino responses. 6. Spain's last 150 Years: the development of export crops and the commercialization of the economy. The tobacco monopoly. Abaca production
The weaving industry and sugar production in Western Visayas. The commercialization of rice production. The emergence of a national marketing system. Economic change, women's work, and gender relations in the last century of Spanish rule. The Philippine Revolution and the First Philippine Republic. 7. The Philippines under American rule: 1901-42, 1945-46. Work, wages, economic conditions and Filipino responses. Gender, ideology, sexuality and class in the American period. American colonization: a summary -- pt. III. The Sexual Division of Labour in the Post-Colonial Period (1946-89). 8. Work, Wages, Ideology and Women's Responses: An Overview. Work and sectoral patterns. Wages and incomes. Ideological considerations. Organized women: responses and resistance. 9. Women's Work: Some Contemporary Configurations (1). The agricultural sector. The industrial sector. Administration and clerical work. 10. Women's Work: Some Contemporary Configurations (2). The informal sector. The sex trade
Women who leave: work and migration. Gender, work and ethnicity: women in cultural communities. 11. Class, Family, State and Development. Class, ideology and the family-household. Women and the state. The failure of development: gender and systemic crises -- pt. IV. Gender and Social Transformation. 12. Gender subordination: historical and contemporary configurations. The colonial legacy. The neo-colonial period
Analysis Women Employment
Philippines
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Employment -- Philippines
Sexual division of labor -- Philippines
Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions
Sex role -- Philippines
Working class women -- Philippines
Sex discrimination in employment -- Philippines
Working class women
Sex discrimination in employment
Economic history
Sex role
Sexual division of labor
Social conditions
Women -- Employment
Women -- Social conditions
Politische Ökonomie
Frauenarbeit
Arbeitsteilung
Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung
Geschichte
Frau
Berufstätigkeit
Sekserol.
Arbeidsverdeling.
SUBJECT Philippines -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97008239
Philippines -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100778
Subject Philippines
Philippinen
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1856491099
9781856491099
1856491102
9781856491105
Other Titles Women and the sexual division of labour in the Philippines