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Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria

Review Of Working With Gender: Labor And Social Change In Southwestern By Lisa A. Lindsay, Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2003. Lindsay has written an excellent book that offers empirical validity to prevailing theories that ideas about gender are malleable. Her book examines the varying ways in which gender is used to negotiate working conditions among employees and employers during the 20th century in southwestern Nigeria. While not strictly about women's work, nor a descriptive historical account, Lindsay's book is an intellectually grounded study that uses a case study of government…