The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes (Pitt Latin American Series, 349)

By Sarah Hamilton

Book Overview

"The Two-Headed Household" is an ethnographic account of gender relations and intrahousehold decisionmaking as well as a policy-oriented study of gender and development in the indigenous Andean community of Chanchalo, Ecuador. Sarah Hamilton argues that, contrary to common belief, men and women participate equally in agricultural production and management, in household decisionmaking, and share in the reproductive tasks of child care, food preparation, and other chores.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822940728
• ISBN13: 9780822940722
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 6.5"