'Rice Plus' Wido and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia (New Approaches in Sociology)
pdf | 1.74 MB | English | Author :Susan H. Lee | 2006
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This book explores the economic coping practices of rural wido in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. War produces a preponderance of wido, often young wido with small children in their care. Rural wido must feed their families and educate their children despite rural poverty and the lack of opportunities for women. The economics of widowhood is therefore a significant social problem in less developed countries.
The wido' predominant economic plan was to combine rice cultivation with an assortment of microenterprises, a "rice plus" strategy. Many wido were unable to grow enough rice on their land to feed their families. They filled the hunger gap by raising cash through microenterprises to purchase additional rice. Gender work roles were both permeable and persistent, allowing a flexible sexual division of labor in the short run but maintaining traditional roles in the long run. Most wido called on relatives or exchanged transplanting labor for male plowing services, although a few women took up the plow themselves. The study also explores wido' access to key economic resources such as land, credit, and education.
War decimated wido' family support networks, including the loss of children, their social security. The study concludes that Cambodia's gender arrangement offered many economic options to wido but also devalued their labor in a cultural structure of inequality. Gender, poverty, and war interacted to reduce wido' financial resources, accounting for their economic vulnerability.
Category : | Women's Studies, Sociology of Marriage & Family, Sociology of Marriage & Family
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