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    African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana
    African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana
    African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana
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    African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana

    By Gracia C. Clark

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    “A wonderfully evocative compilation of seven life histories from Kumasi, Ghana, of women Gracia Clark encountered in the course of a lifetime of fieldwork.” —African Studies Review

    In these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on a global scale. Many work at the intersection of sophisticated networks of transnational commerce and migration. They have dramatic memories of independence and the growth of their new nation, including political rivalries, price controls, and violent raids on the market. The experiences of these women give substance to their reflections on globalization, capital accumulation, colonialism, technological change, environmental degradation, teenage pregnancy, marriage, children, changing gender roles, and spirituality. Clark’s commentary illuminates the complex historical and cultural setting of these deeply revealing lives.

    “Shows, in direct speech, how family, kinship, marriage and age/generation work together in a daily life which is shaped by political, demographic, cultural, and wholly accidental change in people’s circumstances.” —Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins University

    “Overall, this is an excellent book: it will be useful in undergraduate teaching and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the richness and variety of women’s lives in West Africa.” —Journal of Africa

    “Clark . . . offers intriguing insights into the lives of seven Akan women traders . . . Recommended.” —Choice
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 8, 2010
    ISBN9780253027443
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