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The international handbook of gender and poverty : concepts, research, policy / edited by Sylvia Chant
- Published
- Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- xxxiv, 698 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Additional Creators
- Chant, Sylvia H.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Gendered poverty across space and time: introduction and overview / Sylvia Chant -- pt. I CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR GENDERED POVERTY -- 2.Strategic gendering: one factor in the constituting of novel political economies / Saskia Sassen -- 3.Subjectivity, sexuality and social inequalities / Henrietta L. Moore -- 4.Power, privilege and gender as reflected in poverty analysis and development goals / Gerd Johnsson-Latham -- 5.Gender into poverty won't go: reflections on economic growth, gender inequality and poverty with particular reference to India / Cecile Jackson -- 6.Advancing the scope of gender and poverty indices: an agenda and work in progress / Thomas Pogge -- 7.Methodologies for gender-sensitive and pro-poor poverty measures / Sharon Bessell -- 8.Multidimensional poverty measurement in Mexico and Central America: incorporating rights and equality / Anna Coates -- 9.Gender, time poverty and Amartya Sen's capability approach: evidence from Guatemala / Sarah Gammage -- 10.Why is progress in gender equality so slow? An introduction to the `Social Institutions and Gender' Index / Johannes Jutting -- 11.Diamonds are a girl's best friend? Experiences with the Gender Action Learning System / Linda Mayoux -- pt. II DEBATES ON THE `FEMINISATION OF POVERTY', AND FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS -- 12.The `feminisation of poverty': a widespread phenomenon? / Joana Costa -- 13.Poor households or poor women: is there a difference? / Gita Sen -- 14.Globalisation and the need for a `gender lens': a discussion of dichotomies and orthodoxies with particular reference to the `feminisatio of poverty' / Francien van Driel -- 15.Towards a (re)conceptualisation of the `feminisation of poverty': reflections on gender-differentiated poverty from The Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica / Sylvia Chant -- 16.Post-adjustment, post-mitigation, `post-poverty'? The feminisation of family responsibility in contemporary Ghana / Lynne Brydon -- 17.Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America: state policy in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic / Helen I. Safa -- 18.Gender, households and poverty in the Caribbean: shadows over islands in the sun / Janet Momsen -- 19.Poverty and female-headed households in post-genocide Rwanda / Marian Koster -- 20.Between stigmatisation and survival: poverty among migrant and non-migrant lone mothers in the Netherlands / Annelou Ypeij -- 21.Lone mothers, poverty and paid work in the United Kingdom / Jane Millar -- 22.Urban poverty and gender in advanced economies: the persistence of feminised disadvantage / Fran Tonkiss -- pt. III GENDER, FAMILY AND LIFECOURSE -- 23.Gender and household decision-making in developing countries: a review of evidence / Agnes R. Quisumbing -- 24.Linking women's and children's poverty / Ruth Lister -- 25.Reducing the gender gap in education: the role of wage labour for rural women in Mozambique / John Sender -- 26.Understanding the gender dynamics of Russia's economic transformation: women's and men's experiences of employment, domestic labour and poverty / Sarah Ashwin -- 27.Gender, poverty and transition in Central Asia / Angela Baschieri -- 28.Urban poverty, heteronormativity and women's agency in Lima, Peru: family life on the margins / Carolyn H. Williams -- 29.Youth, gender and work on the streets of Mexico / Sarah Thomas de Benitez -- 30.Sexuality, poverty and gender among Gambian youth / Alice Evans -- 31.Ghettoisation, migration or sexual connection? Negotiating survival among Gambian male youths / Stella Nyanzi -- 32.Poverty and old age in sub-Saharan Africa: examining the impacts of gender with particular reference to Ghana / Isabella Aboderin -- 33.Gender, urban poverty and ageing in India: conceptual and policy issues / Penny Vera-Sanso -- 34.Poverty, gender and old age: pension models in Costa Rica and Chile / Monica Budowski -- 35.Gender, poverty and pensions in the United Kingdom / Athina Vlachantoni -- pt. IV GENDER, `RACE' AND MIGRATION -- 36.Assessing poverty, gender and well-being in `Northern' indigenous communities / Janet Hunt -- 37.Gender and ethnicity in the shaping of differentiated outcomes of Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades conditional cash transfer programme / Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha -- 38.Gender, poverty, and national identity in afrodescendent and indigenous movements / Helen I. Safa -- 39.The gendered exclusions of international migration: perspectives from Latin American migrants in London / Cathy McIlwaine -- 40.Latino immigrants, gender and poverty in the United States / Cecilia Menjivar -- 41.Culturing poverty? Ethnicity, religion, gender and social disadvantage among South Asian Muslim Communities in the United Kingdom / Claire Alexander -- 42.Gender, occupation, loss and dislocation: a Latvian perspective / Linda McDowell -- 43.Gender, poverty and migration in Mexico / Haydea Izazola -- 44.Migration, gender and sexual economies: young female rural-urban migrants in Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- 45.Internal Mobility, migration and changing gender relations: case study perspectives from Mali, Negeria, Tanzania and Vietnam / Cecilia Tacoli -- 46.Picturing gender and poverty: from `victimhood' to `agency'? / Kalpana Wilson -- pt. V GENDER, HEALTH AND POVERTY -- 47.Poverty gender and the right to health: reflections with particular reference to Chile / Jasmine Gideon -- 48.Maternal mortality in Latin America: a matter of gender and ethnic equality / Anna Coates -- 49.New labyrinths of solitude: lonesome Mexican migrant men and AIDS / Matthew Gutmann -- 50.Gender, poverty and AIDS: perspectives with particular reference to sub-Saharan Africa / Andrew Gibbs -- 51.Gender, HIV/AIDS and carework in India: a need for gender-sensitive policy / Keerty Nakray -- 52.Women's smoking and social disadvantage / Hilary Graham -- pt. VI GENDER, POVERTY AND ASSETS -- 53.Household wealth and women's poverty: conceptual and methodological issues in assessing gender inequality in asset ownership / Carmen Diana Deere -- 54.Gender, poverty and access to land in cities of the South / Carole Rakodi -- 55.Power, patriarchy and land: examining women's land rights in Uganda and R wanda / Jessica Espey -- 56.Gender, livelihoods and rental housing markets in the Global South: the urban poor as landlords and tenants / Sunil Kumar -- 57.Renegotiating the household: successfully leveraging women's access to housing microfinance in South Africa / Sophie Mills -- 58.Gender issues and shack/slum dweller federations / Diana Mitlin -- 59.Gender, poverty and social capital: the case of Oaxaca City, Mexico / Katie Willis -- 60.Moving beyond gender and poverty to asset accumulation: evidence from low-income households in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline Moser -- 61.Conceptual and practical issues for gender and social protection: lessons from Lesotho / Matseliso Mphale -- pt. VII GENDER, POVERTY AND WORK -- 62.Gender, work and poverty in high-income countries / Diane Perrons -- 63.The extent and origin of the gender pay gap in Europe / Eva Fransen -- 64.Women's work, nimble fingers and women's mobility in the global economy / Ruth Pearson -- 65.Gender, poverty and inequality: the role of markets, states and households / Silke Staab -- 66.Women's employment, economic risk and poverty / James Heintz -- 67.Gender and ethical trade: can vulnerable women workers benefit? / Stephanie Barrientos -- 68.Fraternal capital and the feminisation of labour in South India / Sharad Chari -- 69.Economic transition and the gender wage gap in Vietnam: 1992-2002 / Amy Y.C. Liu -- 70.Gender, poverty and work in Cambodia / Katherine Brickell -- 71.Informality, poverty, and gender: evidence from the Global South / Marty Chen -- 72.The empowerment trap: gender, poverty and the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa / Kate Meagher -- 73.A gendered analysis of decent work deficits in India's urban informal economy: case study perspectives from Surat / Paula Kantor -- 74.Gender and quality of work in Latin America / Javier Pineda -- 75.Gender inequalities and poverty: a simulation of the likely impacts of reducing labour market inequalities on poverty incidence in Latin America / Elydia Silva -- pt. VIII GENDERED POVERTY AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS -- 76.Gender, poverty and aid architecture / Gwendolyn Beetham -- 77.Brand Aid? How shopping has become `Saving African Women and Children with AIDS' / Lisa Ann Richey -- 78.Sweden to the rescue? Fitting brown women into a poverty framework / Katja Jassey -- 79.Poverty alleviation in a changing policy and political context: the case of PRSPs with particular reference to Nicaragua / Brian Linneker -- 80.Gender-responsive budgeting and women's poverty / Rhonda Sharp -- 81.Reducing gender inequalities in poverty: considering gender-sensitive social programmes in Costa Rica / Laura Guzman Stein -- 82.Is gender inequality a form of poverty? Shifting semantics in Oxfam GB's thinking and practice / Nicholas Pialek -- 83.Tackling poverty: learning together to improve women's rights through partnership---the case of WOMANKIND Worldwide / Ceri Hayes -- 84.Millennial woman: the gender order of development / Ananya Roy -- pt. IX MICROFINANCE AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT -- 85.The housewife and the marketplace: practices of credit and savings from the early modern to modern era / Beverly Lemire -- 86.Money as means or money as end? Gendered poverty, microcredit and women's empowerment in Tanzania / Fauzia Mohamed -- 87.Capitalising on women's social capital: gender and microfinance in Bolivia / Kate Maclean -- 88.`A women and an empty house are never alone for long': autonomy, control, marriage and microfinance in women's livelihoods in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / Caroline Sweetman -- 89.Gender and poverty in Egypt: do credit projects empower the marginalised and the destitute? / Iman Bibars -- 90.Women's empowerment: a critical re-evaluation of a GAD poverty-alleviation project in Egypt / Nabila Hamed -- and Contents note continued: 91.Impacting women through financial services: the Self Help Group Bank Linkage Programme in India and its effects on women's empowerment / Ranjula Bali Swain -- 92.Microcredit and women's empowerment: understanding the `impact paradox' with particular reference to South India / Supriya Garikipati -- 93.Gender and poverty in microfinance: illustrations from Zambia / Irene Banda Mutalima -- 94.The impact of microcredit programmes on survivalist women entrepreneurs in The Gambia and Senegal / Bart Casier -- 95.Methodologies for evaluating women's empowerment in poverty alleviation programmes: illustrations from Paraguay and Honduras / Yoko Fujikake -- pt. X NEW FRONTIERS IN GENDERED POVERTY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS -- 96.Women, poverty and disasters: exploring the links through Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua / Sarah Bradshaw -- 97.Decentralisation, women's rights and poverty: learning from India and South Africa / Jo Beall -- 98.Poverty, entitlement and citizenship: vernacular rights cultures in Southern Asia / Sumi Madhok -- 99.Contradictions in the gender-poverty nexus: reflections on the privatisation of social reproduction and urban informality in South African townships / Faranak Miraftab -- 100.Gender, neoliberalism and post-neoliberalism: re-assessing the institutionalisation of women's struggles for survival in Ecuador and Venezuela / Amy Lind -- 101.Who does the counting? Gender mainstreaming, grassroots initiatives and linking women across space and `race' in Guyana / D. Alissa Trotz -- 102.Poverty, religion and gender: perspectives from Albania / Claire Brickell -- 103.Sexuality, gender and poverty / Andrea Cornwall -- 104.Masculinity, poverty and the `new wars' / Jane L. Parpart.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781848443341 (hbk.)
184844334X (hbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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