Books by Betsy Hartmann and James K Boyce
A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village
by Betsy Hartmann and James K Boyce
This book was written by two Americans, both of whom spoke Bangla and spent nine months living in a village. It describes in detail the nature of exploitation that the rural poor face, by describing individual characters and using their own words.
Interviews where books by Betsy Hartmann and James K Boyce were recommended
The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World, recommended by Khushi Kabir
The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole, with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike
