Development Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781853830006 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 124 str.

Gita Sen; Caren Grown

Opis

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. This book analyzes the policies towards Third World women. It focuses on global economic and political crises such as debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism.

Spis treści

Preamble * Introduction * 1. Gender and Class in Development Experience - From the Vantage Point of Poor Women * The Colonial Heritage * Resource Inequalities and 'Open' Economic Policies * Basic Needs Strategies * The Development Project Experience * Population Programmes and Reproductive Rights * 2. Systematic Crises, Reproduction Failures, and Women's Potential - The Food-Fuel-Water Crises * The Balance of Payments and Debt Crises * Militarization and Violence * A Crises of Culture * 3. Alternative Visions, Strategies, and Methods - Visions * Strategies * Empowering Ourselves Through Organizations: Types and Methods * Notes * Bibliography

O autorze

Gita Sen and Caren Grown represent DAWN, a network of activists and researchers, largely in the Third World, committed to developing new strategies to attain social and economic justice, peace and development, free of all oppression by gender, class, race and nation.