Gender and Development (eBook)

The Economic Basis of Women′s Power

Samuel R. Cohn, Rae Lesser Blumberg (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
304 Seiten
Sage Publications, Inc (Verlag)
9781544381169 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
1. “Power of the Purse”: The Importance of Women’s Economic Power: Why Women’s Economic Power Is Absolutely Essential - Rae Lesser Blumberg and Samuel Cohn
2. Guide to the Book - Samuel Cohn and Rae Lesser Blumberg
3. Armed Actors, the Commodification of Women, and the Destruction of Childhood: Understanding the Connections Between Predatory Sexuality and the Violence of Capital in Colombia - Jasmin Hristov
4. The “Created Biology of Gender Stratification”: Links Between Economic Power and Gender Equality From Hunter-Gatherers to Today’s Global South and North - Rae Lesser Blumberg
5. Development, the State, and Gender: A Comparative Analysis of Iran and Tunisia - Valentine M. Moghadam
6. Poverty, Water, Sanitation Insecurities, and the Challenges of Maintaining Menstrual Hygiene - Rita Jalali
7. Male Preference and Women’s Economic Power: How Men’s Choices Open or Close Occupations For Women - Samuel Cohn
8. Women on the Fast Track?: Coloniality of Citizenship and Embodied Social Mobility - Manuela Boatca and Julia Roth
9. Gender through the Looking Glass: The Role of Low-Status Men in the Production of Global Gender Violence and Racial and Ethnic Bigotry - Kevin T. Leicht and Phyllis L. Baker
10. War, Women, and the Aftermath: Finding Resilience in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Nepal - Marie E. Berry
11. No Way Out: Women in Nepal Trapped in Cycles of Poverty, Gender Inequality, and Economic Disenfranchisement - Jennifer Rothchild and Priti Shrestha Piya
12. Authentic Activism: Domestic Workers as Global Development Agents - Jennifer N. Fish and Justin Sprague
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cohn • Economic Development • Gender & Development • Gender & Politics • Gender and Development: The Economic Basis of Women′s Power • International Development • social change • Sociology of Development • Sociology of Sex & Gender • Sociology of Women
• ISBN-13: 9781544381169 / 9781544381169