Nan Wiegersma
- Affiliation: Fitchburg State College
Nan Wiegersma is Professor of Economics at Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She worked for the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service in 1969-1973 on the Southeast Asia Desk, and she was UN representative on a World Food Programme mission to Vietnam in 1987. She has published numerous articles about land tenure, gender and development in journals, and a book, Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution (Macmillan Press and St. Martins, 1988). She was a Fulbright Fellow in Nicaragua in 1991, studying women’s work in export processing zones.
Books by Nan Wiegersma
Women, Gender and Development Reader
2nd edition
Edited by Lynne Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff, Nalini Visvanathan, Nan Wiegersma
Third World women were long the undervalued and ignored actors in the development process but are now recognized as playing a critical role. This book is a comprehensive reader presenting the best of the now vast body of literature that has grown up alongside this acknowledgement. Divided into five parts, this book incorporates readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The first part acts as an introduction to the field, examining the key theoretical debates and discourses… (more information)