{"product_id":"african-market-women-9780253221544","title":"African Market Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents the lives and experiences of women traders in Kumasi. This book shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on a global scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eClark . . . offers intriguing insights into the lives of seven Akan women traders. . . . Recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall, this is an excellent book: it will be useful in undergraduate teaching and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the richness and variety of women's lives in West Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Africa *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShows, in direct speech, how family, kinship, marriage and age\/generation work together in a daily life which is shaped by political, demographic, cultural, and wholly accidental change in people's circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jane Guyer * Johns Hopkins University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[This] book may be read as both a scholarly study and a collection of primary sources: accessible to a general reader, and likely to be of particular interest to students and scholars seeking knowledge about Ghana, women's studies, and\/or African social history and economic life. For readers who are already familiar with Clark's first book, African Market Women will be a welcome and rewarding companion volume. July, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e * H-Africa, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican Market Women is a wonderfully evocative compilation of seven life histories from Kumasi, Ghana, of women Gracia Clark encountered in the course of a lifetime of fieldwork with marketers and study of the anthropology of marketing.April 2012\u003c\/p\u003e * African Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican Market Women provides a unique insider's view into the highly complicated workings of the West African commodities trade. Through the words of some of the market's most accomplished veterans, readers can see the daily efforts involved in distribution and marketing of some of Ghana's most essential household items.Vol. 43, no. 2, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e * Intl Jrnl. of African Historical Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvides rich and nuanced insight into a range of themes which are at the very heart of late colonial and postcolonial scholarship on Africa: globalization, gender and economic security, economic decline, structural adjustment, changes in family structure, urbanization, environmental degradation, new forms of spirituality, transnational migration, and the politics of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jean Allman * Washington University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Trading Lives\u003cbr\u003e1. Abenaa Adiiya\u003cbr\u003e Portrait: An Adventurer on the Road\u003cbr\u003e Story: Patience and Pleading\u003cbr\u003e2. Maame Kesewaa\u003cbr\u003e Portrait: A Quiet Saver\u003cbr\u003e Story: Someone Has Set Herself a Goal\u003cbr\u003e3. Madame Ataa\u003cbr\u003e Portrait: A Good Citizen\u003cbr\u003e Story: A Man Would Marry You Properly\u003cbr\u003e4. Amma Pokuaa\u003cbr\u003e Portrait: A Market Daughter\u003cbr\u003e Story: All of Them Depend upon Me\u003cbr\u003e5. Auntie Afriyie\u003cbr\u003e Portrait: A Shrewd Dealer\u003cbr\u003e Story: If You Have Wisdom, You Can Do Many Jobs\u003cbr\u003e6. Sister Buronya\u003cbr\u003e Portrait: An International Observer\u003cbr\u003e Story: If I Had Money, I Would Go\u003cbr\u003e7. Maame Nkrumah\u003cbr\u003e Portrait: A Grateful Sister\u003cbr\u003e Story: She Has Cared For Me and My Children\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Little by Little\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400662360407,"sku":"9780253221544","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253221544.jpg?v=1730471236","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-market-women-9780253221544","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}