Fields, Forest, And Family

Name: Fields, Forest, And Family
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Until the Vietnam War, Laotian women had traditionally sustained the household and local economy with their work in field, forest and family. This book focuses on the ways in which women from three ethnic groups have responded to the political and social changes which have occurred since the war. > After the Vietnam War, socialist governments ascended to power in all the countries of the former Indochina. In Laos, more than a decade of socialist reorganization was followed by economic liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had traditionally sustained the household and local economy with their work in field, forest, and family, but political and economic changes markedly affected the context of rural women's prevailing sources of power and subordination. Socialist policies, for example, curtailed women's commercial activities while recognizing women's work in agriculture and child care.In this richly detailed volume, Carol Ireson draws on ten years of fieldwork and researct