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Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women | 
 enlarge | Author: Gracia Clark
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 923631
Media: Paperback
Pages: 488
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0226107809
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.4813811809667
EAN: 9780226107806
ASIN: 0226107809
Publication Date: January 1, 1995
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In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics.
Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wholesalers, who control the flow of important staples. Drawing on more than four years of field research, during which she worked alongside several influential market "Queens", Clark explains the economic, political, gender, and ethnic complexities involved in the operation of the marketplace and examines the resourcefulness of the market women in surviving the various hazards they routinely encounter, from coups d'etat to persistent sabotage of their positions from within.
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