Gender and Development

ISBN-13: 9781138940628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 324 str.

Janet Momsen

Opis

This revised and updated third edition of Gender and Development provides a concise, accessible introduction to gender and development issues in the developing world and in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe. It is the only broad-based introduction to the topic written specifically for a student audience.

Spis treści

List of plates. List of figures. List of tables. List of boxes. Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction: gender is a development issue 2 Demography 3 Reproduction 4 Gender, health and violence  5 Gender and environment  6 Gender in rural areas 7 Gender in urban areas 8 Globalization and changing patterns of economic activity 9 How far have we come?
References. Index.

O autorze

Janet Momsen is Emerita Professor of Geography at the University of California, Davis. She is affiliated with the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Associate in the School of the Environment and in International Gender Studies. She has taught at several universities in England, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, Malaysia and the USA, and carried out field research in the Caribbean, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ghana, Mexico, China, Bangladesh, India and Hungary.