Fields, Forest, and Family: Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos Condition:Good There are now over a

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Fields, Forest, and Family: Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos Condition:Good There are now over aAfter the Vietnam War, socialist governments ascended to power in all the countries of the former Indochina. In Laos, more than a decade of socialist reorganization was followed by economic liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had traditionally sustained the household and local economy with their work in field, forest, and family, but political and economic changes markedly affected the context of rural women's prevailing sources of power