Women\'s Work and Employment : Production and Consumption Patterns, Gendered Work, Theoretical Issues, Prostitution, Organisational Culture

Contents: Introduction/Subhadra Channa. 1. Production and consumption of the Pira-Parana Indians of the Amagon/Christine Hugh Jones. 2. Women in Turfan during the sixth to eighth centuries: a look at their activities outside the home/Deng Xiaonan. 3. Embroidering the past: Phulkari textiles and gendered work as "Tradition" and "Heritage" in colonial and contemporary Punjab/Michelle Maskiell. 4. Every Blade of Green: landless women laborers, production, and reproduction/Karin Kapadia. 5. Theoretical issues: confronting continuity/Judith M. Bennett. 6. Rethinking prostitution/Barbara Sullivan. 7. \'Organisation Man--women and organisational culture\'/G. Coates. 8. Employment and sustainable livelihoods: a gender perspective/Rachel Masika with Susan Joekes.