Engendering Wealth And Well-being
Empowerment For Global Change
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2019
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-367-31549-8 (ISBN)
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The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development policies and a reevaluation of the role of gender in their success or failure. Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment, there is also considerable evidence of
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Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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College/higher education
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
627 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31549-8 (9780367315498)
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Cathy Rakowski | Rae Lesser Blumberg | Irene Tinker
Engendering Wealth And Well-being
Empowerment For Global Change
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Rae Lesser Blumberg is professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, where Michael Monteon is associate professor of history. Cathy A. Rakowski is assistant professor of agricultural economics and rural sociology at Ohio State University. Irene Tinker is professor of city and regional planning at the University of California at Berkeley.
Content
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Engendering Wealth and Well-Being in an Era of Economic Transformation, PART ONE AN OVERVIEW OF GENDER AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, CHAPTER TWO Gender Dynamics of Restructuring in the Semi periphery, CHAPTER THREE Gender and Economic Crises in Latin America: Reflections on the Great Depression and the Debt Crisis, PART TWO ENGENDERING WEALTH, ENGENDERING SURVIVAL, CHAPTER FOUR Trade, Gender, and Poverty in the Nairobi Area: Women's Strategies for Survival and Independence in the 1980s, CHAPTER FIVE Gender Implications of Export-Led Industrialization in the Caribbean Basin, CHAPTER SIX Engendered Production in Rural Taiwan: Ideological Bonding of the Public and Private, CHAPTER SEVEN Macroeconomic Policies and Gender Relations: The Study of Farming Households in Two Turkish Villages, PART THREE ENGENDERING WELL-BEING, CHAPTER EIGHT Father's Money, Mother's Money, and Parental Commitment: Guatemala and Nicaragua, CHAPTER NINE Gender and Health in Nigerian Structural Adjustment: Locating Room to Maneuver, CHAPTER TEN Gender Relations in Urban Middle-Class and Working-Class Households in Mexico, PART FOUR PATHS TO POWER AND POLICY, CHAPTER ELEVEN Gender, Environment, and Empowerment in Venezuela, CHAPTER TWELVE Gender and Environments: Lessons from WEDNET, CHAPTER THIRTEEN Beyond Economics: Sheltering the Whole Woman, CHAPTER FOURTEEN Conclusion: Engendering Wealth and Well-Being-Lessons Learned