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Social Science Women's Studies

To Work and To Weep

Women in Fishing Economies

edited by Jane Nadel-Klein & Dona Lee Davis

Publisher
ISER Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
Women's Studies
  • 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