Reviews for Fields, Forest, and Family: Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos

The average rating for Fields, Forest, and Family: Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-28 00:00:00 RUIZ JUAN I love the women Anglin writes about, largely because they are much like many women in my own life - my mother, aunts, other friends and relations. Women I love, respect and greatly admire. It pained me to read this, in truth, not because I found any disrespect of the subjects in the study, but simply because they were subjects of study. I can't help but imagine they felt vulnerable during the process, regardless of Anglin's respect and sensitivity. I feel vulnerable and exposed reading it, as it could be my mother being discussed, explained. One passage in the conclusion especially interested me ( page 123): "Not only did Etta exegete St Paul in a fashion that was unfamiliar to me...". How I would loved to have witnessed this conversation as I simultaneously heard everything these women were thinking but left unsaid, most especially Dr Anglin. Unfamiliar (exegete - SAINT Paul) indeed!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-10-02 00:00:00 Jose A. Raynal V. A really powerful ethnography about the work women do. Used this for my own research, and I will most likely have students read it this spring for a course I'm teaching