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Contents
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PART I CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR GENDERED POVERTY | 27 |
one factor in the constituting of novel political economies | 29 |
3 Subjectivity sexuality and social inequalities | 35 |
4 Power privilege and gender as reflected in poverty analysis and development goals | 41 |
reflections on economic growth gender inequality and poverty with particular reference to India | 47 |
an agenda and work in progress | 53 |
7 Methodologies for gendersensitive and propoor poverty measures | 59 |
conceptual and methodological issues in assessing gender inequality in asset ownership | 347 |
54 Gender poverty and access to land in cities of the South | 353 |
examining womens land rights in Uganda and Rwanda | 360 |
the urban poor as landlords and tenants | 367 |
successfully leveraging womens access to housing microfinance in South Africa | 373 |
58 Gender issues and shackslum dweller federations | 379 |
the case of Oaxaca City Mexico | 385 |
evidence from lowincome households in Guayaquil Ecuador | 391 |
incorporating rights and equality | 65 |
evidence from Guatemala | 71 |
10 Why is progress in gender equality so slow? An introduction to the Social Institutions and Gender Index | 77 |
11 Diamonds are a girls best friend? Experiences with the Gender Action Learning System | 84 |
PART II DEBATES ON THE FEMINISATION OF POVERTY AND FEMALEHEADED HOUSEHOLDS | 93 |
a widespread phenomenon? | 95 |
is there a difference? | 101 |
a discussion of dichotomies and orthodoxies with particular reference to the feminisation of poverty | 105 |
reflections on genderdifferentiated poverty from The Gambia Philippines and Costa Rica | 111 |
16 Postadjustment postmitigation postpoverty? The feminisation of family responsibility in contemporary Ghana | 117 |
state policy in Cuba Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic | 123 |
shadows over islands in the sun | 129 |
19 Poverty and femaleheaded households in postgenocide Rwanda | 135 |
poverty among migrant and nonmigrant lone mothers in the Netherlands | 141 |
21 Lone mothers poverty and paid work in the United Kingdom | 147 |
the persistence of feminised disadvantage | 153 |
PART III GENDER FAMILY AND LIFECOURSE | 159 |
a review of evidence | 161 |
24 Linking womens and childrens poverty | 167 |
the role of wage labour for rural women in Mozambique | 173 |
womens and mens experiences of employment domestic labour and poverty | 178 |
27 Gender poverty and transition in Central Asia | 184 |
family life on the margins | 190 |
29 Youth gender and work on the streets of Mexico | 195 |
30 Sexuality poverty and gender among Gambian youth | 201 |
31 Ghettoisation migration or sexual connection? Negotiating survival among Gambian male youths | 207 |
examining the impacts of gender with particular reference to Ghana | 215 |
conceptual and policy issues | 220 |
pension models in Costa Rica and Chile | 226 |
35 Gender poverty and pensions in the United Kingdom | 232 |
PART IV GENDER RACE AND MIGRATION | 239 |
36 Assessing poverty gender and wellbeing in Northern indigenous communities | 241 |
37 Gender and ethnicity in the shaping of differentiated outcomes of Mexicos ProgresaOportunidades conditional cash transfer programme | 248 |
38 Gender poverty and national identity in afrodescendent and indigenous movements in Latin America | 254 |
perspectives from Latin American migrants in London | 260 |
40 Latino immigrants gender and poverty in the United States | 266 |
41 Culturing poverty? Ethnicity religion gender and social disadvantage among South Asian Muslim communities in the United Kingdom | 272 |
a Latvian perspective | 278 |
43 Gender poverty and migration in Mexico | 284 |
young female ruralurban migrants in Nigeria | 290 |
case study perspectives from Mali Nigeria Tanzania and Vietnam | 296 |
from victimhood to agency? | 301 |
PART V GENDER HEALTH AND POVERTY | 307 |
reflections with particular reference to Chile | 309 |
a matter of gender and ethnic equality | 315 |
lonesome Mexican migrant men and AIDS | 321 |
perspectives with particular reference to subSaharan Africa | 327 |
a need for gendersensitive policy | 333 |
52 Womens smoking and social disadvantage | 339 |
PART VI GENDER POVERTY AND ASSETS | 345 |
lessons from Lesotho | 399 |
PART VII GENDER POVERTY AND WORK | 407 |
62 Gender work and poverty in highincome countries | 409 |
63 The extent and origin of the gender pay gap in Europe | 415 |
64 Womens work nimble fingers and womens mobility in the global economy | 421 |
the role of markets states and households | 427 |
66 Womens employment economic risk and poverty | 434 |
can vulnerable women workers benefit? | 440 |
68 Fraternal capital and the feminisation of labour in South India | 446 |
19922002 | 452 |
70 Gender poverty and work in Cambodia | 458 |
evidence from the Global South | 463 |
gender poverty and the informal economy in subSaharan Africa | 472 |
case study perspectives from Surat | 478 |
74 Gender and quality of work in Latin America | 484 |
a simulation of the likely impacts of reducing labour market inequalities on poverty incidence in Latin America | 490 |
PART VIII GENDERED POVERTY AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS | 495 |
76 Gender poverty and aid architecture | 497 |
77 Brand Aid? How shopping has become Saving African Women and Children with AIDS | 504 |
78 Sweden to the rescue? Fitting brown women into a poverty framework | 510 |
the case of PRSPs with particular reference to Nicaragua | 516 |
80 Genderresponsive budgeting and womens poverty | 522 |
considering gendersensitive social programmes in Costa Rica | 528 |
82 Is gender inequality a form of poverty? Shifting semantics in Oxfam GBs thinking and practice | 535 |
learning together to improve womens rights through partnership the case of WOMANKIND Worldwide | 541 |
the gender order of development | 548 |
PART IX MICROFINANCE AND WOMENS EMPOWERMENT | 555 |
practices of credit and savings from the early modern to modern era | 557 |
86 Money as means or money as end? Gendered poverty microcredit and womens empowerment in Tanzania | 563 |
gender and microfinance in Bolivia | 569 |
autonomy control marriage and microfinance in womens livelihoods in Addis Ababa Ethiopia | 575 |
do credit projects empower the marginalised and the destitute? | 581 |
a critical reevaluation of a GAD povertyalleviation project in Egypt | 587 |
the Self Help Group Bank Linkage Programme in India and its effects on womens empowerment | 594 |
understanding the impact paradox with particular reference to South India | 599 |
illustrations from Zambia | 606 |
94 The impact of microcredit programmes on survivalist women entrepreneurs in The Gambia and Senegal | 612 |
illustrations from Paraguay and Honduras | 618 |
PART X NEW FRONTIERS IN GENDERED POVERTY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS | 625 |
exploring the links through Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua | 627 |
learning from India and South Africa | 633 |
vernacular rights cultures in Southern Asia | 638 |
reflections on the privatisation of social reproduction and urban informality in South African townships | 644 |
reassessing the institutionalisation of womens struggles for survival in Ecuador and Venezuela | 649 |
101 Who does the counting? Gender mainstreaming grassroots initiatives and linking women across space and race in Guyana | 655 |
perspectives from Albania | 661 |
103 Sexuality gender and poverty | 667 |
104 Masculinity poverty and the new wars | 674 |
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