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Title The political economy of gender [electronic resource] : women and the sexual division of labour in the Philippines / Elizabeth Uy Eviota
Publication Info London ; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : Zed Books, 1992
Description viii, 212 p. ; 23 cm
Contents Pt. I Contours of the Discussion -- 1. Sex, Gender and Society -- Sex and gender -- A search for origins -- Perspective -- 2. Gender and Political Economy -- The sexual division of labour and capitalism -- Philippine political economy and the labour process -- 3. Sexuality, Ideology and Cultural Practice -- The social construction of sexuality -- Sexuality and social change -- The realm of meanings -- State and ideology -- The sexual division of labour, sexuality and ideology -- Pt. II The Sexual Division of Labour in the Philippines: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Legacies -- 4. The pre-Hispanic Period -- Social arrangements -- Gender relations: some observations -- 5. The Philippines under Spain: the first centuries (1521-1750) -- Political and religious colonization -- The Chinese in Philippine life -- Colonization, gender differentiation and Filipino responses -- 6. Spain's last 150 Years: the development of export crops and the commercialization of the economy -- The tobacco monopoly -- Abaca production -- The weaving industry and sugar production in Western Visayas -- The commercialization of rice production -- The emergence of a national marketing system -- Economic change, women's work, and gender relations in the last century of Spanish rule -- The Philippine Revolution and the First Philippine Republic -- 7. The Philippines under American rule: 1901-42, 1945-46 -- Work, wages, economic conditions and Filipino responses -- Gender, ideology, sexuality and class in the American period -- American colonization: a summary -- Pt. III The Sexual Division of Labour in the Post-Colonial Period (1946-89) -- 8. Work, Wages, Ideology and Women's Responses: An Overview -- Work and sectoral patterns -- Wages and incomes -- Ideological considerations -- Organized women: responses and resistance -- 9. Women's Work: Some Contemporary Configurations (1) -- The agricultural sector -- The industrial sector -- Administration and clerical work -- 10. Women's Work: Some Contemporary Configurations (2) -- The informal sector -- The sex trade -- Women who leave: work and migration -- Gender, work and ethnicity: women in cultural communities -- 11. Class, Family, State and Development -- Class, ideology and the family-household -- Women and the state -- The failure of development: gender and systemic crises -- Pt. IV Gender and Social Transformation -- 12. Gender subordination: historical and contemporary configurations -- The colonial legacy -- The neo-colonial period
Bibliography Includes bibliography (p. [193]-206) and index
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Subjects Women -- Employment -- Philippines
Sexual division of labor -- Philippines
Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions.
Sex role -- Philippines
Philippines -- Social conditions.
Philippines -- Economic conditions.
Additional Authors American Council of Learned Societies.
Other Title Women and the sexual division of labour in the Philippines
Part of ACLS Humanities E-Book
Material Type Electronic books
ISBN 1856491099
1856491102 (pbk)
OCLC 182529887