Choosing to be Invisible, Dying to be Visible

The case study presented in this book focuses on gender dynamics in Turkey, exploring how the informal sector is enacted through women's participation and the choices they make in it. It challenges the dichotomy between necessity and choice, arguing that there is a middle ground in which individual choice is socially constrained but in which the individual choices and practices also end up shaping the structural constraints themselves.This well-thought-out ethnographical fieldwork appeals to academicians, postgraduate and undergraduate students with a interest in sociology and social policy, gender and women's studies, development studies, sociology of work.