Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market

Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market

by Tammy Horn
Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market

Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market

by Tammy Horn

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Overview

Queen bee. Worker bees. Busy as a bee. These phrases have shaped perceptions of women for centuries, but how did these stereotypes begin? Who are the women who keep bees and what can we learn from them? Beeconomy examines the fascinating evolution of the relationship between women and bees around the world. From Africa to Australia to Asia, women have participated in the pragmatic aspects of honey hunting and in the more advanced skills associated with beekeeping as hive technology has advanced

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813134352
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 11/25/2011
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Tammy Horn was raised with beekeepers on both sides of her family. She is the director of Coal Country Beeworks, a multi-service project in which surface mine sites are reclaimed with pollinator habitat in eastern Kentucky.

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