
Gender Challenges
Volumes 1, 2 and 3
Bina Agarwal(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 28. January 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
1496 pages
978-0-19-945365-8 (ISBN)
Description
Noted economist Bina Agarwal provides gender perspectives on a wide range of academic and policy issues of current importance in this three-volume set of essays written by her over the last three decades. Combining diverse methodologies and an interdisciplinary approach, this collection brings together in one place the author's pioneering work in the areas of agriculture, environment, and property rights. These peer-reviewed essays challenge standard economic analysis and assumptions, unraveling the linkages between gender inequality, social exclusion, property, and development.
Volume I examines how modernization of agriculture, introduction of new technologies, and rural innovations affect the position of women in rural families, especially in the context of food distribution and healthcare. Volume II challenges conventional approaches to property and family, and examines the importance of owning property, for women's economic and social well-being, for enhancing their bargaining power and security, and for protecting them against domestic violence. Volume III provides theoretical and conceptual formulations on gender differences in responses to the environment, empirical assessments of such responses, and policy implications.
Volume I examines how modernization of agriculture, introduction of new technologies, and rural innovations affect the position of women in rural families, especially in the context of food distribution and healthcare. Volume II challenges conventional approaches to property and family, and examines the importance of owning property, for women's economic and social well-being, for enhancing their bargaining power and security, and for protecting them against domestic violence. Volume III provides theoretical and conceptual formulations on gender differences in responses to the environment, empirical assessments of such responses, and policy implications.
Reviews / Votes
The achievement lies however, not in the number of publications nor the diversity of topics covered, but the intellectual breadth, penetrating insightfulness, methodological firmness, and theoretical contributions of Agarwal's work. * Carolyn Elliott, Feminist Economics Research *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 maps and 9 figures
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 94 mm
Weight
1996 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-945365-8 (9780199453658)
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E-Book
12/2015
1st Edition
OUP
€565.49
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Person
Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK.
Author
Professor, Development Economics and Environment, University of ManchesterProfessor, Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester
Content
AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND FOOD SECURITY; PROPERTY, FAMILY, AND THE STATE; VOL 3; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND COLLECTIVE ACTION