Women-Headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World

Households headed by women are a growing presence worldwide. This is the first book to focus on their diversity and dynamics in developing countries. Set within the context of global trends and debates on female household headship, and using case-study material based on interviews with low-income women in Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines, the analysis explores the reasons for the formation and increase in women-headed households in different parts of the world, and their capacity for survival in societies where male-headed households are both the norm and ideal.

Politics & Social Sciences

Campling, Jo

Chant, Sylvia H.

Social Sciences

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Gender in Latin America

In Latin America,  gender is a fundamental dimension of virtually every aspect of  contemporary social, economic, and political life. Gender in Latin America  is a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in the region at  the start of the twenty-first century. The authors draw on a wide range  of research, including their own field-based expertise, to illuminate  the importance of diversity in gender in this region. Debunking  traditional stereotypes, the book charts changes and continuities in  gender roles, relations and identities associated with the growing  evidence produced by feminist scholarship and activism in the continent.Chapters are arranged around themes such as gender and poverty,  gender and population, gender and health, and gender and employment.  Each chapter begins with an introduction to the core issues, and debates  in the relevant field in order to set specific regional experiences  within their global as well as regional contexts. The authors also refer  to new bodies of literature on the subject, including those on men and  masculinity, fatherhood, and sexuality.

Craske, Nikki

Rutgers Univ Pr

'[A]n accessible introduction to models and theories of human nature and how they inform our professional practice' Professional Social Work

Women of a lesser cost: Female labour, foreign exchange, and Philippine development

Business & Money

Economics

Ateneo de Manila University Press

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