Social Science Women's Studies
To Work and To Weep
Women in Fishing Economies
- Publisher
- ISER Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1988
- Category
- Women's Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919666603
- Publish Date
- Jan 1988
- List Price
- $23.95
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Here is a cross-cultural collection of ethnographic essays (from Brazil, Newfoundland, Portugal, India, Scotland, Malaysia and Peru) that challenge popular images of women in fishing communities. Offering theoretical contentions about women in society, To Work and to Weep is a text relevant to Women's Studies as well as Ecologic and Economic Anthropology.
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"...very important to anthropologists and others engaged in Women's Studies. The question of women's status, roles, and relationships with men in settings frequently characterized by the division of labour is not at all unique to fishing communities, although they provide excellent ways to study it." - Anthropologica