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Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly

By on March 01, 2010

This paper analyses the changing relations between organised women market traders and rulers in a West African context, from a distant past to the present. It shows how political elites have used market traders as loyal supporters and as scapegoats for many centuries. These relations have taken a convoluted path that alternates between alliance and repression, in the context of shifts in the political and economic environment. Notorious episodes of price control and market demolitions from 1979 to 1984 are only the most dramatic moments in a long history of official intervention in trade and suspicion of prominent traders.

 

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Clark, Gracia. Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly. , , . , 2010. Clark, G. (2010). Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly. , , . Clark, Gracia. "Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly." 2010, .Clark Gracia. "Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly." (2010). Clark, G 2010, 'Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly', , , . Gracia Clark, 'Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly' (2010). Clark G. Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly. . 2010. Clark, Gracia. Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly. . 2010. , .

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