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Seeds : supporting women's work in the Third World

Title
  1. Seeds : supporting women's work in the Third World / edited by Ann Leonard ; introduction by Adrienne Germain ; afterwords by Marguerite Berger [and others].
Published by
  1. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York : Distributed by the Talman Co., ©1989.

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Additional authors
  1. Leonard, Ann, 1945-
Description
  1. xiii, 239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. This book presents eight case studies of projects where women have initiated and run unique enterprises which have made an impact in rural areas in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. No mere cottage industries, these enterprises have invaded such traditional male realms as construction, manufacturing, and transportation. When successful (and not all were), the projects elevated the status of the women involved in their communities, and the women were able to invest their profits in health care, education, and other businesses.
Uniform title
  1. Seeds (New York, N.Y.)
Subject
  1. Women in development > Developing countries > Case studies
  2. Women in development
  3. women workers
  4. womens organization
  5. village
  6. cooperative
  7. savings and credit club
  8. rural employment
  9. forest conservation
  10. cooperative marketing
  11. community
  12. waste recycling
  13. construction
  14. handicrafts
  15. travailleuses
  16. organisation féminine
  17. coopérative
  18. groupement d'épargne et de crédit
  19. emploi rural
  20. conservation de la forêt
  21. vente en coopération
  22. communauté
  23. recyclage des déchets
  24. artisanat décoratif et d'expression
  25. trabajadoras
  26. organización femenina
  27. pueblo
  28. cooperativa
  29. grupo de ahorro y crédito
  30. empleo rural
  31. protección forestal
  32. comercialización cooperativa
  33. comunidad
  34. reciclaje de desperdicios
  35. construcción
  36. artesanía decorativa y tradicional
  37. Developing countries
  38. Africa
  39. Asia
  40. Latin America
  41. developing countries
  42. pays en développement
  43. países en desarrollo
Genre/Form
  1. Case studies
  2. illustration.
  3. ilustración.
Contents
  1. Village women organize: The Mraru, Kenya Bus Service / Jill Kneerim -- The Markala, Mali Cooperative / Susan Caughman and Mariam N'diaye Thiam -- The working women's forum: organizing for credit and change in Madras, India / Marty Chen -- Developing non-craft employment for women in Bangladesh / Marty Chen -- Forest conservation in Nepal / Augusta Molnar -- Market women's cooperatives: giving women credit in Nicaragua / Judith Bruce -- Community management of waste recycling in Mexico / Marianne Schmink -- The Kingston women's construction collective / Ruth Mcleod -- Women and handicrafts / Jasleen Dhamija -- Seeds for a new model of development / Vina Mazumdar -- Seeds / Aminata Traore -- Seeds of change in Latin America and the Caribbean / Marguerite Berger -- Planting seeds in the classroom / Kathleen Staudt.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Originally published in a pamphlet series Seeds.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.