The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy

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Sylvia H. Chant
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2011 - Social Science - 736 pages
. . . possibly the most comprehensive contribution to a detailed and thorough analysis of gendered dimensions of international poverty contexts, causes, and consequences ever brought together into one volume. Gender and Development I recommend this book t
 

Contents

introduction and overview
1
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
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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
Index
681
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Edited by the late Sylvia Chant FRSA, FAcSS, formerly Professor of Development Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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