The farming wife presents a reassessment of family farming at a time when family enterprise is gaining in significance and interest beyond the farming arena. The book offers a feminist critique and reconstruction of petty commodity production, the concept widely used to describe various forms of small-scale production for the market based on family, or household, labour and property. Through a detailed study of family farming in England, the political economy of family-based production is examined as a unity of household and enterprise, intimately structured by patriarchal gender relations. Placing women at the centre of analysis, the book challenges the prevailing invisibility of woman in farming, and family enterprise, and portrays their experience as farm wives.
- ISBN10 0333525469
- ISBN13 9780333525463
- Publish Date 23 November 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English