Para ile Akraba: Kentsel Türkiye'de Kadın Emeği

by Jenny B. White

In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually "work". Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among family producers and pieceworkers, and using fascinating case studies throughout, Jenny B. White shows how women's paid work is viewed in terms of kinship relations of reciprocity and obligation. This fully revised second edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated references, comparative material on women's labor elsewhere in the world, and brand new material on Islam, globalization, gender, and Turkish family life.

237 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

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I wrote a book review on this for my ‘Kinship: the structure and the process’ course for my anthropology degree!