Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia : Contradictory Pressures, Uneasy Resolutions (Paperback)

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Purdah and Poverty in Pakistan; F.Shaheed - Women in the Work and Poverty Trap in Iran; H.Afshar - Women, Land and Ideology in India; B.Agarwal - Petty Trading and Gender Segregation in Urban South India; J.Lessinger - The Ideology of Femininity and Women's Work in a Fishing Community in Tamil Nadu, India; K.Ram - Internal Colonisation and the Fate of Female Divers in Cheju Island, South Korea; H-J.Cho - Women's Work, Male Domination and Control over Income Among Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka; R.Kurien - Export- Oriented Industries and Women Workers in Sri Lanka; K.Rosa - Poverty, Ideology, and Women Export Factory Workers in Southeast Asia; G.H.C.Foo & L.Y.C.Lim - Index