Research Catalog

Title

Gender, generation and poverty : exploring the 'feminisation of poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America / Sylvia Chant.

Author

Chant, Sylvia H.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2007.

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Description

xxiv, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

The 'feminism of poverty' is widely viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, the construct is only weakly substantiated.

Subject

• Women in development > Developing countries
• Poor women > Developing countries
• Poverty > Developing countries
• gender
• women
• poverty
• gambia
• philippines
• costa rica
• developing countries
• Poor women
• Poverty
• Women in development
• Armut
• Frau
• Vrouwen
• Armoede
• Leeftijdsgroepen
• gender relations
• women in development
• men and masculinities
• Fattiga kvinnor > U-länder
• pauvreté
• relations de genre
• rôle de la femme dans le développement
• hommes et masculinités
• pobreza
• relaciones entre los géneros
• participación de la mujer en el desarrollo
• hombres y masculinidades
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer
• Ontwikkelingslanden
• Costa Rica
• Gambia
• Philippines
• Gambie
• Filipinas

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-409) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Analysing poverty from a gender perspective -- The 'feminisation of poverty' in the global South : assertions, agendas and evidence -- Gender, generation and poverty in the Gambia -- Gender, generation and poverty in the Philippines -- Gender, generation and poverty in Costa Rica -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781843769927
• 1843769921
• 9781843769934
• 184376993X

LCCN

2006101242

OCLC

• ocm77116840
• 77116840
• SCSB-1451227

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library