A01=Carol Ireson
agrarian livelihoods women
Author_Carol Ireson
Carol J. Ireson
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economic
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ethnic
Ethnic Lao Women
ethnic minority gender studies
Forest Gathering
gender roles rural Asia
Gender Stratification System
hmong
Hmong Women
household labor division
khmu
Khmu Women
lao
Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Lao Villages
Lao Women
Laotian
Laotian Women
Local Women's Unions
Local Women’s Unions
luang
Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang Province
National Women's Union
National Women’s Union
postwar Southeast Asia development
prabang
province
Rice Mill
rural women's autonomy economic change
Rural Women's Lives
Rural Women’s Lives
socialist transformation Laos
Swidden Fields
Upland Fields
Village Administrative Committees
women
Women's Economic Power
Women's International Democratic Federation
Women's Union
Women's Union Officials
womens
Women’s Economic Power
Women’s International Democratic Federation
Women’s Union
Women’s Union Officials
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780813337302
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 context of rural women's prevailing sources of power and subordination. Socialist policies, for example, curtailed women's commercial activities while recognizing women's work in agriculture and child care.In this richly detailed volume, Carol Ireson draws on ten years of fieldwork and research to explore this metamorphosis among Laotian women. Throughout, she poses questions such as: What has happened to women's traditional sources of control over their own and others' activities since the 1975 socialist revolution? Have their traditional sources of power or autonomy expanded or contracted as changing conditions have allowed other groups to appropriate women's traditional resources and roles? Have the dramatic changes had different effects on rural women of differing ethnic backgrounds and varying economic means?Focusing on women from three major ethnic groups?the lowland Lao, the Khmu, and the Hmong?Ireson examines the different ways they have responded to political and economic changes. She shows us that the Laotian experience reveals in microcosm the processes of change toward specialization and integration of women's work into national and global economies and explains how this shift deeply affects women's lives.
Carol Ireson is professor of sociology at Willamette University.
