Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives - Couverture souple

Sen, Gita; Grown, Caren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0853457174 ISBN 13 : 9780853457176

Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 1987

Synopsis

Development, Crises and Alternative Visions This book synthesizes and analyzes three decades of economic, political, and cultural policies and politics toward third world women. Focusing on the impact of the current global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, and fundamentalism - the authors show how, through organization, poor women have begun to mobilize creative and effective development strategies to pull themse... Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gita Sen and Caren Grown represent DAWN, a network of activists and researchers, largely in the Third World, committed to developing new strategies to attain social and economic justice, peace and development, free of all oppression by gender, class, race and nation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0853457174
• ISBN 13: 9780853457176
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128