Gender and Development

✍ Scribed by Janet Momsen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the Classic Women and Development in the Third World was published over a decade ago, a new awareness of the importance of gender roles in development has grown. Gender and Development provides an introduction to the topic that is based on the author's wide field experience. Topical and up-to-date information and analysis are used throughout. This accessible textbook contains a wealth of student-friendly features, including boxed case-studies drawn from around the world, encompassing the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe and the Central Asian Republics, as well as Latin America and Asia. There are also chapter learning objectives, discussion questions, annotated guides to further reading and websites, and numerous maps and photographs.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 8
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 12
List of boxes......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction: gender is a development issue......Page 18
The sex ratio......Page 38
Reproduction......Page 64
Gender, health and violence......Page 92
Gender and environment......Page 123
Gender in rural areas......Page 153
Gender and urbanization......Page 188
Globalization and changing patterns of economic activity......Page 208
How far have we come?......Page 237
References......Page 261
Index......Page 283