Research Catalog

Title

Women in developing countries : assessing strategies for empowerment / edited by Rekha Datta and Judith Kornberg.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Datta, Rekha
• Kornberg, Judith F., 1954-

Description

ix, 189 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• UN Development Fund for Women
• Women
• Women > Government policy > Developing countries
• Women in development > Developing countries
• Women's Rights
• Women's rights > Developing countries
• World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace (1995 : Beijing)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Empowerment and disempowerment / Rekha Datta, Judith Kornberg -- Women and the United Nations: norms, reproductive health and rights, and population policy / Charlotte Graves Patton -- The empowerment of women through international law / Kathleen Suneja -- State ideology and women in rural China / Kellee S. Tsai -- The state, development, and empowerment in India / Rekha Datta -- Structural adjustment and the empowerment (or disempowerment) of women in Niger and Senegal / Lucy Creevey -- Structural adjustment policies in Mexico and Costa Rica / Kiki Anastasakos -- Making waves: women and development in the Caribbean / Marian A.L. Miller -- The empowerment of Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip / Saliba Sarsar -- Conclusion: Assessing women and empowerment / Rekha Datta, Judith Kornberg.

ISBN

• 1588260143 (alk. paper)
• 1588260399 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001048638

OCLC

48098415

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library