Downtown Ladies - Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist Self Making

Zusammenfassung The Caribbean "market woman" is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood. Challenging this stereotype, this work offers a complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders who travel abroad to import and export an array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica.

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• Authors: Gina Ulysse, Gina A. Ulysse, ULYSSE GINA
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9780226841212
• ISBN: 978-0-226-84121-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, 20th Century, Caribbean islands, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, International Trade, International trade and commerce