In the WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY series, this book analyses the dramatic developments in the lives of contemporary Southern women. Case studies portray women's diverse circumstances, from rural African women taking on new roles as community builders to female textile workers...
When she began work on this collection, Barbara Ellen Smith was asked, "Why work on a book about women in the South? Nobody writes books about women in the Midwest." In an era of intensified globalization, when populations, cultures, and capital move across the boundaries of...