Research Catalog

Title

Women and empowerment in the Global South / edited by Amriah Buang, Janet Momsen.

Publication

Bangi : Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Amriah bt. Buang
• Momsen, Janet Henshall

Description

196 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Women in economic development > Developing countries > Case studies
• Women in development > Developing countries > Case studies
• Women > Developing countries > Social conditions > Case studies
• Women in development
• Women in economic development
• Women > Social conditions
• Developing countries

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Women and empowerment in the Global South / Amriah Buang -- Mapping progress and challenges for women's empowerment in the Global South / Margareta Amy Lelea -- The sustainability of sexual behaviour change amongst a Zambian community affected by AIDS / Janette Davies -- Legislating well-being, progress in East Timor on domestic violence and sex and gender-based violence / Phyllis Ferguson -- Patriarchy in absentia, women and development in the Caribbean / Janet Henshall Momsen -- Women in fair trade coffee production in Nicaragua / Catherine Dilley & Janet Momsen -- Voices from the Bolivian Altiplano / Emily Hedin -- Education, political empowerment, and Muslim women in the Middle East / Amriah Buang & Ratnawati Yuni Suryandari -- Empowerment begins with recognition, female workforce and its under-recognised contribution to the economy of North East India / Madhushree Das & Bimal K. Kar -- Micro-credit, poverty alleviation and women's empowerment, a case study from rural Sri Lanka / Seela Aladuwaka & Janet Momsen.

ISBN

• 9789674120276
• 9674120270

LCCN

^^2013305788

OCLC

• 844990220
• SCSB-11303978

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library