Mary Johnson Osirim

Enterprising Women in Urban Zimbabwe

Gender, Microbusiness, and Globalization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Enterprising Women in Urban Zimbabwe offers a comprehensive study of women's role as entrepreneurs in the microeconomic sector that shows them as agents during challenging political and economic times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780253353474
• ISBN-10: 0253353475
• Artikelnr.: 25683414

Autorenporträt

Mary Johnson Osirim is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Center for International Studies at Bryn Mawr College.

Inhaltsangabe

This is a tentative table of contents.
1. Introduction
2. Shaping the Discourse on Women, Development and the Microenterprise
Sector: The Feminist Political Economy Paradigm and the Modern History of
Zimbabwe
3. Market Traders: Persisting against Difficult Odds
4. Crocheters and Knitters: Creativity and Innovation in Production
5. Hairdressers and Seamstresses: Higher Status in the Microenterprise
Sector?
6. Entrepreneurship, the State, and the Development of Civil Society
7. Conclusion