This new volume from SEA illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. The contributors are economic anthropologists who consider the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context, examining issues of: historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers in anthropology and in the related fields of economics, sociology of work, gender studies, women's studies, and economic development.

Part 1 Introduction: How Gender Works, in the Practice of Theory and Other Social Processes Part 2 Part I: Concepts of Gender Within Economic Change Part 3 Chapter 1: Archaeology and the Gender Without History Part 4 Chapter 2: Rain and Cattle: Gendered Structures and Political Economy in Precolonial Pare, Tanzania Part 5 Chapter 3: Woman-headed Households in Agrarian Societies: Not Just a Passing Phase Part 6 Part II: Entrepreneurs as Women Part 7 Chapter 4: Female Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: A Multisite, Pilot Investigation of Gender and Work Part 8 Chapter 5: Women, Modernity, and the Global Economy: Negotiating Gender and Work in Ifugao, Upland Philippines Part 9 Chapter 6: Between Family and Market: Women and thew New Silk Road in Post-Soviet Kazakstan Part 10 Part III: Love and Entitlements Part 11 Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Newar Economics of Practice: Gender and the Politics of Consciousness in a Nepalese Merchant Community Part 12 Chapter 8: Why Would She Fight Her Family?: Indian Women's Negotiations of Discourses of Inheritance Part 13 Chapter 9: Decision Making and Flows of Income and Expenses Among Households with Factory-Employed Members Part 14 Part IV: Migration Engendered Part 15 Chapter 10: Male Wealth and Claims to Motherhood: Gendered Resource Eaccess and Intergenerational Relations in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia Part 16 Chapter 11: Age, Masculinity and Migration: Gender and Wage Labor Among Samburu Pastoralists in Northern Kenya Part 17 Chapter 12: Women in a Brazilian Agricultural Frontier