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

Sen, Gita; Grown, Caren

 
9781853830006: Development Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853830003 ISBN 13: 9781853830006
Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened.

This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1853830003
ISBN 13 
9781853830006
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
124