| Description |
116 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New feminist library |
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New feminist library.
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| Note |
"Written by Gita Sen and Caren Grown for the project Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-116.) |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Introduction ---- I. Gender and Class in Development Experience. 1. From the Vantage Point of Poor Women --- 2. The Colonial Heritage --- 3. Resource Inequalities and 'Open' Economic Policies --- 4. Basic Needs Strategies --- 5. The Development Project Experience --- 6. Population Programmes and Reproductive Rights ---- II. Systematic Crises, Reproduction Failures, and Women's Potential. 1. The Food-Fuel-Water Crises --- 2. The Balance of Payments and Debt Crises --- 3. Militarization and Violence --- 4. A Crises of Culture ---- III. Alternative Visions, Strategies, and Methods. 1. Visions --- 2. Strategies --- 3. Empowering Ourselves Through Organizations: Types and Methods. |
| Summary |
"book synthesizes and analyzes three decades of economic, political, and cultural policies and politics toward third world women. Focusing on the impact of the current global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, and fundamentalism - the authors show how, through organization, poor women have begun to mobilize creative and effective development strategies to pull themselves and their families out of immiserating circumstances." -- Back cover. |
| Subject |
Women in development -- Developing countries.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Grown, Caren.
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Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (Project)
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| Added Title |
Third World women's perspectives |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Sen, Gita. Development, crises, and alternative visions. New York : Monthly Review Press, c1987 (OCoLC)569725605 |
| ISBN |
0853457174 paperback |
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9780853457176 paperback |
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0853457182 hardcover |
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9780853457183 hardcover |
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