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Title Women at the center : development issues and practices for the 1990s / editors, Gay Young, Vidyamali Samarasinghe, Ken Kusterer.

Publication Info. West Hartford, Conn. : Kumarian Press, [1993]
©1993

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 W872WO    Check Shelf
Description x, 221 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Kumarian Press Library of management for development
Kumarian Press library of management for development.
Contents Setting the context / Peggy Antrobus -- Widening economic opportunities for women : removing barriers one brick at a time / Nancy S. McDonnell, Tsitsi V. Himunyanga-Phiri, and Annie Tembo -- The last frontier or a new beginning? women's microenterprises in Sri Lanka / Vidyamali Samarasinghe -- The family as a development issue / Jane S. Jaquette -- Women and shelter : combining women's roles / Irene Tinker -- Struggle and development : changing the reality of self-employed workers / Mirai Chatterjee -- The story of two self-help organizations : women for the survival of agriculture and farmworker's Self-help, Inc. / Nelda K. Pearson -- Popular education in practice : lessons of the 1991 AWID conference / Jane K. Vella -- Gender and institutional change in international development / A. Rani Parker and Michelle Friedman -- Strategic locations : gender issues in business management / Kathleen Staudt -- Gender in community development and resource management / Rekha Mehra -- Women and AIDS : a point of view / Seble Dawit -- Women facing the challenge of AIDS : prevention and policy concerns / Ellen Weiss and Geeta Rao Gupta -- Women-oriented NGOs in Latin America : democratization's decisive wave / Ken Kusterer -- Forging across the borders of conflict : women's diplomacy / Reena Bernards.
Note "Prepared under the auspices of the Association for Women in Development."
Papers based on the Fifth International Forum of the Association for Women in Development (AWID), held in Washington, D.C., November 12-24, 1991.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Women in development.
Sex role.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Social conditions.
Added Author Young, Gay.
Samarasinghe, Vidyamali.
Kusterer, Kenneth C.
Association for Women in Development.
ISBN 1565490290 (pbk. : recycled, acid-free paper)
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