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The Lao: Gender, Power, and Livelihood
Author(s): Carol Ireson-Doolittle (Author), Geraldine Moreno-Black (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 13 Sept. 2019
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 212 pages
- ISBN-10: 0367318644
- ISBN-13: 9780367318642
Book Description
The Lao discusses culture and village life in Laos, exploring topics of kinship and family, gender relations, households, religion, livelihood strategies, and ethnicity. In particular, the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men and women in rural Lao society, and the responses of women to those changes, are highlighted.
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About the Author
CAROL J. IRESON-DOOLITTLE is Professor of Sociology at Willamette University and the author of Field, Forest, and Family: Women’s Work and Tower in Rural Laos (Westview 1996). Her research and teaching interests focus on gender, development and globalization, and Asia. She first worked in Laos as a volunteer in the late 1960s, and has lived and worked in Laos as a development worker and researcher numerous times since then. GERALDINE MORENO-BLACK is a nutritional anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Her research interests focus on gender and issues of food security, nutritional status, and health. She has worked for more than 15 years in Thailand doing research in the Thai-Lao region of the Northeast (Isan) and more recently with industrial workers in the industrial area southeast of Bangkok. She and Ireson-Doolittle have begun a study of women-owned textile businesses located in Vientiane, Laos, and selling in international markets.
