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Author Clark, Gracia

Title African Market Women Seven Life Stories from Ghana / Gracia Clark
Published Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

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Description 1 online resource (265 p. :) ill., maps
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Cover; AFRICAN MARKET WOMEN; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Trading Lives; 1. ABENAA ADIIYA; Portrait: An Adventurer on the Road; Story: Patience and Pleading; 2. MAAME KESEWAA; Portrait: A Quiet Saver; Story: Someone Has Set Herself a Goal; 3. MADAME ATAA; Portrait: A Good Citizen; Story: A Man Would Marry You Properly; 4. AMMA POKUAA; Portrait: A Market Daughter; Story: All of Them Depend upon Me; 5. AUNTIE AFRIYIE; Portrait: A Shrewd Dealer; Story: If You Have Wisdom, You Can Do Many Jobs; 6. SISTER BURONYA; Portrait: An International Observer
Story: If I Had Money, I Would Go7. MAAME NKRUMAH; Portrait: A Grateful Sister; Story: She Has Cared for Me and My Children; Conclusion: Little by Little; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; References; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-262) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Market towns -- Ghana -- Kumasi
Women merchants -- Ghana -- Kumasi
Women, Akan -- Ghana -- Kumasi -- Economic conditions
Women, Akan -- Ghana -- Kumasi -- Social conditions
Women, Ashanti -- Ghana -- Kumasi -- Economic conditions
Women, Ashanti -- Ghana -- Kumasi -- Social conditions
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
Economic history
Market towns
Politics and government
Social conditions
Women merchants
SUBJECT Kumasi (Ghana) -- Politics and government
Kumasi (Ghana) -- Economic conditions
Kumasi (Ghana) -- Social conditions
Subject Ghana -- Kumasi
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse.
LC no. 2009025620
ISBN 9780253027443
0253027446