Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives (New Feminist Library)

Sen, Gita; Grown, Caren

ISBN 10: 0853457174 / ISBN 13: 9780853457176

Edité par Monthly Review Press (edition First Edition), 1987

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Synopsis :

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 themselves and their families out of immiserating circumstances.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Development, Crises and Alternative Visions:...
Éditeur : Monthly Review Press (edition First Edition)
Date d'édition : 1987
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Edition : First Edition.