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Women Across Time and Space
Introduction5:51
Female Brewsters in Medieval England20:02
Peruvian Indian Market Women20:20
Economic Roles of African Women14:13
Professor Akyeampong Comments6:19
Audience Question and Answer16:20
Entrepreneurship and Social Change
SEWA and Social Change in India8:43
India's Self-Employed Women Workers12:39
Entrepreneurship: A Need for Survival8:35
Collective Strength through Struggle7:38
Investing in the Working Poor12:07
SEWA Stories: Making a Difference9:37
Conclusion: Women, Money, and Power7:19

Audience Question and Answer


Question 1: I'm interested in knowing whether, in the three cultures you studied, these women, having greater economic power or economic resources, are also able to translate that into more power to control their reproductive processes....

Question 2: I'd like to follow up with Judith Bennett, also on Emmanuel's question, about the popular culture in Britain and the gender-changing roles of the spaces, and how that affected women's power and their ability to be brewers and to participate.

Question 3: Prostitution has been called the oldest profession.... Is there a history of women as entrepreneurs as prostitutes that's come into play in any of your work?

Question 4: When you do cross-cultural research, what measures do you put into place to make sure that the comments you make and the research that you find is contextually based?