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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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| Contents |
List of Tables and Figures; Series Editor Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women, Livelihood, and Social Change; 1 Laos: Historical Contexts; 2 Laos: Village Contexts; 3 Family, Home, Children, and Change; 4 Making a Living from the Land: Economics, Gender, and Power; 5 Making a Living in Commerce: Textiles; 6 Gender, Ethnicity, and Development in Luang Prabang; 7 Women and Social Change Among the Lao; Glossary; References; Index. |
| Summary |
The Lao discusses culture and village life in Laos, exploring topics of kinship and family, gender relations, households, religion, livelihood strategies, and ethnicity. In particular, the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men and women in rural Lao society, and the responses of women to those changes, are highlighted. Ireson-Doolittle and Moreno-Black not only provide a description of life on the ground but also explore how local affairs are connected to the wider world, and how the Lao people preserve traditions while also responding to change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women, Lao -- Social conditions.
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Women, Lao -- Social conditions. |
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Women, Lao. |
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Women, Lao -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Women, Lao -- Employment.
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Sexual division of labor -- Laos.
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Sexual division of labor. |
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Laos. |
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Women in development -- Laos.
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Women in development. |
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Sex role -- Government policy -- Laos.
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Sex role -- Government policy. |
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Sex role. |
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Laos -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Laos -- Economic conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Moreno-Black, Geraldine.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ireson-Doolittle, Carol. Lao : Gender, Power, and Livelihood. New York : Westview Press, ©2009 9780813340630 |
| ISBN |
9780786751211 (electronic book) |
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0786751215 (electronic book) |
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