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Seeds : supporting women's work in the Third World
- Title
- Seeds : supporting women's work in the Third World / edited by Ann Leonard ; introduction by Adrienne Germain ; afterwords by Marguerite Berger [and others].
- Publication
- New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York : Distributed by the Talman Co., ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ1240.5.D44 S43 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Leonard, Ann, 1945-
- Description
- xiii, 239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book presents eight case studies of projects where women have initiated and run unique enterprises which have made an impact in rural areas in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. No mere cottage industries, these enterprises have invaded such traditional male realms as construction, manufacturing, and transportation. When successful (and not all were), the projects elevated the status of the women involved in their communities, and the women were able to invest their profits in health care, education, and other businesses.
- Uniform Title
- Seeds (New York, N.Y.)
- Subject
- Women in development > Developing countries > Case studies
- Women in development
- women workers
- womens organization
- village
- cooperative
- savings and credit club
- rural employment
- forest conservation
- cooperative marketing
- community
- waste recycling
- construction
- handicrafts
- travailleuses
- organisation féminine
- coopérative
- groupement d'épargne et de crédit
- emploi rural
- conservation de la forêt
- vente en coopération
- communauté
- recyclage des déchets
- artisanat décoratif et d'expression
- trabajadoras
- organización femenina
- pueblo
- cooperativa
- grupo de ahorro y crédito
- empleo rural
- protección forestal
- comercialización cooperativa
- comunidad
- reciclaje de desperdicios
- construcción
- artesanía decorativa y tradicional
- Developing countries
- Africa
- Asia
- Latin America
- developing countries
- pays en développement
- países en desarrollo
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- illustration.
- ilustración.
- Note
- Originally published in a pamphlet series Seeds.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Village women organize: The Mraru, Kenya Bus Service / Jill Kneerim -- The Markala, Mali Cooperative / Susan Caughman and Mariam N'diaye Thiam -- The working women's forum: organizing for credit and change in Madras, India / Marty Chen -- Developing non-craft employment for women in Bangladesh / Marty Chen -- Forest conservation in Nepal / Augusta Molnar -- Market women's cooperatives: giving women credit in Nicaragua / Judith Bruce -- Community management of waste recycling in Mexico / Marianne Schmink -- The Kingston women's construction collective / Ruth Mcleod -- Women and handicrafts / Jasleen Dhamija -- Seeds for a new model of development / Vina Mazumdar -- Seeds / Aminata Traore -- Seeds of change in Latin America and the Caribbean / Marguerite Berger -- Planting seeds in the classroom / Kathleen Staudt.
- ISBN
- 0935312935
- 9780935312935
- 0935312927
- 9780935312928
- LCCN
- 89023329
- OCLC
- ocm20265587
- 20265587
- SCSB-2092274
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library