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Gender and change in developing countries / edited by Kristi Anne Stølen and Mariken Vaa.

Title
Gender and change in developing countries / edited by Kristi Anne Stølen and Mariken Vaa.
Publication
Oslo : Norwegian University Press ; Oxford : Distributed world-wide excluding Scandinavia by Oxford University Press, c1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Stølen, Kristi Anne
  • Vaa, Mariken
Description
viii, 312 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Scandinavian library
Uniform Title
Scandinavian library
Subject
  • Women in development > Developing countries
  • Women > Developing countries > Social conditions
Genre/Form
  • bibliography.
  • bibliographie.
  • bibliografía.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Introduction : women, gender and social change ; Chastity, sexuality and gender perceptions in rural Argentina / Kristi Anne Stølen -- Revival of female circumcision : a case of neo-traditionalism / Astrid Nypan -- Economic change, marriage relations and fertility in a rural area of Kenya / An-Magritt Jensen -- "Wife, today I only had money for pombe", gender and food : women's bargaining power and agricultural change in a Tanzanian community / Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen and Margareta Wandel -- Work, livelihoods and family responsibilities in urban poverty / Mariken Vaa -- What is she up to? : changing identities and values among women workers in Malaysia / Merete Lie and Ragnhild Lund -- Housewifization of peasant women in Costa Rica? / Halldis Valestrand.
  • The symbolism of gender politics : a case of Malay female leadership / Ingrid Rudie -- Clans, gender and kilns : examples from a fisheries development project in Sota village, Tanzania / Siri Gerrard -- Legal reform in Mozambique : equality and emancipation for women through popular justice? / Nina Berg and Aase Gundersen -- Negotiating gender : the case of the International Labour Organization, ILO / Ann Therese Lotherington and Anne Britt Flemmen.
ISBN
8200213870
LCCN
^^^92178436^
OCLC
  • 28343184
  • SCSB-12731055
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library