Persistent Inequalities
Women and World Development
Published on 15. February 1990
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-19-505935-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume deals with issues of women in development in local economies, theories of development and their relation to women, power and powerlessness, the linkages between education and work, and justice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
591 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-505935-9 (9780195059359)
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Content
Introduction: Irene Tinker: A context for the field and for the book; Ester Boserup: Economic change and the roles of women; Part One: The politics of women in development: Irene Tinker: The making of the field: Advocates, practitioners, scholars; Jane Jacquette: Gender and justice in economic development; Charlotte Bunch & Roxanna Carrillo: Feminist perspectives on women in development; Susan C. Bourque & Kay B. Warren: Access is not enough: Gender perspectives on technology and education; Linda Y.C. Lim: Women's work in export factories: The politics of a cause; Part Two: Intrahousehold distribution and control: Amartya K. Sen: Gender and cooperative conflicts; Benjamin Senauer: The impact of the value of women's time on food and nutrition; Hanna Papanek: To each less than she needs, from each more than she can do: Allocations, entitlements, and value; Part Three: Challenging patriarchy: Vina Mazumdar & Kumud Sharma: Sexual division of labor and the subordination of women: A reappraisal from India; Simi Afonja: Changing patterns of gender stratification in West Africa; Christine Obbo: Women, work, and the articulation of dominance: An East Africa lament; Joycelin Massiah: Defining women's work in the commonwealth Caribbean; Ken Kusterer.