Research Catalog

Title

Women and the distribution of wealth / edited by Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl R. Doss.

Publication

London : : a New York : Routledge, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Deere, Carmen Diana.
• Doss, Cheryl R.

Description

310 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Geschichte
• Feminist economics
• Wealth
• wealth
• Vermögensverteilung
• Frau

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The gender asset gap: What do we know and why does it matter? / Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl R. Doss -- Cui Bono? The 1870 British married women's property act, bargaining power, and the distribution of resources within marriage / Mary Beth Combs -- Crippled capitalists: The inscription of economic dependence an the challenge of female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century America / Susan M. Yohn -- "The widow, the clergyman and the reckless": Women investors in England, 1830-1914 / Janette Rutterford and Josephine Maltby -- Gender, marriage, and asset accumulation in the United States / Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak -- The wealth of single women: Marital status and parenthood in the asset accumulation of young baby boomers in the United States / Alexis Yamokoski and Lisa A. Keister -- Moving beyond the gender wealth gap: On gender, class, ethnicity, and wealth inequalities in the United Kingdom / Tracey Warren -- Household bargaining over wealth and the adequacy of women's retirement incomes in New Zealand / John Gibson, Trinh Le, and Grant Scobie -- Assets in intrahousehold bargaining among women workers in Colombia's cut-flower industry / Greta Friedemann-Sanchez -- Joint titling -- a win-win policy? Gender and property rights in urban informal settlements in Chandigarh, India / Namita Datta.

ISBN

• 9780415420020
• 0415420024
• 0415420059
• 9780415420051

LCCN

2008300065

OCLC

• ocn166428485
• 166428485
• SCSB-1439157

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library