Research Catalog

Title

Women in the age of economic transformation : gender impact of reforms in post-socialist and developing countries / [edited by] Nahid Aslanbeigui, Steven Pressman, and Gale Summerfield.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Aslanbeigui, Nahid, 1954-
• Pressman, Steven.
• Summerfield, Gale, 1948-

Description

xvi, 232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Women > Developing countries > Social conditions
• Women > Developing countries > Economic conditions
• Women > Europe, Eastern > Social conditions
• Women > Europe, Eastern > Economic conditions
• Developing countries > Social conditions
• Europe, Eastern > Social conditions
• Women Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-225) and index.

Contents

• Women and economic transformation / Nahid Aslanbeigui, Steven Pressman, Gale Summerfield -- Beyond socialism: the uncertain prospects for East German women in a unified Germany / Hedwig Rudolph, Eileen Appelbaum, Friederike Maier -- The status of women and Poland's transition to a market economy / Bozena Leven -- The economic status of women in Romania / Walter M. Bacon, Jr., Louis G. Pol -- The effect of economic and political reforms on Soviet/Russian women / Patrice C. McMhon -- The impact of economic reforms on women's health and health care in Sub-Saharan Africa / Meredeth Turshen --
• Structural adjustment, the rural-urban interface and gender relations in Zambia / Gisela Geisler, Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Chinese women and the post-Mao economic reforms / Gale Summerfield -- Economic restructuring in Singapore and the changing roles of women, 1957 to present -- Government reforms, economic restructuring and the employment of women: South Korea, 1980-92 / Scott M. Fuess, Jr., Bun Song Lee -- Neoliberal economic reforms and women in Chile / Veronica Montecinos -- The 1982 reforms and the employment conditions of Mexican women / Richard P.F. Holt --
• State policy and the restructuring of women's industries in Nicaragua / Nan Wiegersma.

Call Number

JFE 95-9635

ISBN

• 041510422X
• 0415104238 (pbk.)

LCCN

94014949

OCLC

30319110

Title

Women in the age of economic transformation : gender impact of reforms in post-socialist and developing countries / [edited by] Nahid Aslanbeigui, Steven Pressman, and Gale Summerfield.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-225) and index.

Indexed Term

Women Economic conditions

Added Author

Aslanbeigui, Nahid, 1954-

Pressman, Steven.

Summerfield, Gale, 1948-

Research Call Number

JFE 95-9635