Ethnicity and Gender in the Global Periphery: A Comparison of Basotho and Navajo Women

Betty J. Harris

Institute for Social Science Research, Working Paper Series from Institute for Social Science Research, UCLA

Abstract: In this paper I attempt to crystalize a number of issues which pertain to the economic roles of women in peripheral areas of the world. To accomplish this goal, I draw on my own ethnographic field research among the Basotho women of southern Africa and the Navajo women of the American Southwest. The comparative analysis of women's economic roles in these two non-contiguous regions is guided by and incorporates several dimensions of world system theory. More specifically, included in the analysis are considerations of the interrelationship among, core, periphery, and semi periphery; and the intersection of class, ethnicity, and gender in the functioning of the economic systems of these two societies.

Date: 1988-06-01
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