Suchergebnisse

Introduction / Patricia Hart, Karen Weathermon, and Susan H. Armitage -- Weave and mend / Joanne B. Mulcahy -- Sense and responsibility, "la verdad es muda," and "olvidate de todo, menos de mi" / Maribel Sosa -- Of milk and miracles : nursing, the life drive, and subjectivity / Katherine Sutherland -- It takes a global village to raise a consciousness : a stretch of the imagination / Nancy Reincke -- Cherokee women / Roseanna Sneed -- Like a bamboo : representations of a Japanese war bride / Debbie Storrs -- Filming nana : some dilemmas of oral history on film / Connie Broughton -- Fragments from a family album / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Potties, pride, and pc : scenes from a lesbian mothers' group / Anne Aronson -- Gender issues in the Afghanistan diaspora : Nadia's story / Audrey C. Shalinsky -- From the Yazoo Mississippi Delta to the urban communities of the Midwest : conversations with rural African American women / Valerie Grim -- Walls and bridges : cultural mediation and the legacy of Ella Deloria / Janet L. Finn -- A (boarding) house is not a home : women's work and woman's worth on the margins of domesticity / Kari Boyd McBride -- "Broke in spirits" : death, depression, and endurance through writing / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg -- "It is hard to be born a woman but hopeless to be born a Chinese" : the life and times of Flora Belle Jan / Judy Yung -- Appendix: Alternative grouping by topic.

The author draws on earlier research and recent data she collected locally to examine the position of petty rice producers in the Muda region of Malaysia. Although land concentration and landlessness are increasing, tiny holdings have proved remarkably resilient. The author explains their survival at a time of major changes in the organisation of agricultural production through an analysis of the institutional arrangements governing labour deployment and access to resources within and among households. (DÜI-Sen)