Trouble showed the way : women, men, and trade in the Nairobi area, 1890-1990

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Trouble showed the way : women, men, and trade in the Nairobi area, 1890-1990

Claire C. Robertson

Indiana University Press, c1997

  • : cl. : alk. paper
  • : pbk. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-324) and index

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: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780253211514

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"Robertson's book represents a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women's history. Highly recommended." -Choice "An important resource for anyone interested in the history of women and trade in modern Kenya. . . ." -International Journal of African Historical Studies " . . . a landmark study, meticulously executed and written. . . . it will have a wide impact on some of the most significant questions facing the disciplines of history, anthropology, political science, and development economics." -Gracia Clark Herskovitz Award-winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and nonfiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focusing on traders in one commodity, dried staples, and comparing and contrasting the evolution of women's trade with men's trade.
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: cl. : alk. paper ISBN 9780253333605

内容説明

Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. This book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and non-fiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focusing on traders in one commodity, dried staples, and comparing and contrasting the evolution of women's trade with men's trade. This study adopts a regional rather than an ethnic focus, in adding a historical approach to the study of ethnobotany, in identifying key elements in socioeconomic change, in linking together women's urban and rural experiences, and in meshing symbolic with material aspects of the most mundane of topics-beans. Examining this commodity, often taken for granted like the women traders, the author suggests new areas of exploration - women developing new relationships to their world, and attempting to shape that world to their needs. Their involvement with trade, not only changes their conceptions of themselves, but also their abilities and their physical beings. In developing a food-supply system to feed Nairobi, they also undertook efforts to control their own bodies and businesses and to reconstruct Kenya's economy and society from below.

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