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Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women

Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women

Clark, Gracia

Paperback

Business GeneralAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0226107809
ISBN13: 9780226107806
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jan 1 1995
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics.

Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wholesalers, who control the flow of important staples. Drawing on more than four years of field research, during which she worked alongside several influential market Queens, Clark explains the economic, political, gender, and ethnic complexities involved in the operation of the marketplace and examines the resourcefulness of the market women in surviving the various hazards they routinely encounter, from coups d'etat to persistent sabotage of their positions from within.

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