Engendering Wealth and Well-Being - Empowerment for Global Change

Informationen zum Autor Rae Lesser Blumberg, Irene Tinker, Michael Monteon Klappentext This volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations and focuses on important issues: the gendered dimensions of economic transformation, restructuring, and social changes. It imposes a conceptual framework for the study of gender. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations and focuses on important issues: the gendered dimensions of economic transformation, restructuring, and social changes. It imposes a conceptual framework for the study of gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Engendering Wealth and Well-Being in an Era of Economic Transformation -- An Overview of Gender and Economic Transformation -- Gender Dynamics of Restructuring in the Semiperiphery -- Gender and Economic Crises in Latin America: Reflections on the Great Depression and the Debt Crisis -- Engendering Wealth, Engendering Survival -- Trade, Gender, and Poverty in the Nairobi Area: Women’s Strategies for Survival and Independence in the 1980s -- Gender Implications of Export-Led Industrialization in the Caribbean Basin -- Engendered Production in Rural Taiwan: Ideological Bonding of the Public and Private -- Macroeconomic Policies and Gender Relations: The Study of Farming Households in Two Turkish Villages -- Engendering Well-Being -- Father’s Money, Mother’s Money, and Parental Commitment: Guatemala and Nicaragua -- Gender and Health in Nigerian Structural Adjustment: Locating Room to Maneuver -- Gender Relations in Urban Middle-Class and Working-Class Households in Mexico -- Paths to Power and Policy -- Gender, Environment, and Empowerment in Venezuela -- Gender and Environments: Lessons from WEDNET -- Beyond Economics: Sheltering the Whole Woman -- Conclusion: Engendering Wealth and Well-Being — Lessons Learned...

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• Authors: Rae Blumberg, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Rae Lesser Rakowski Blumberg, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Michael Monteon, Cathy Rakowski, Irene Tinker
• Assisted by: Rae Blumberg (Editor), Rae L. Blumberg (Editor), Rae Lesser Blumberg (Editor), Rae Lesser Blumberg (Editor), Michael Monteon (Editor), Michael Monteón (Editor), Cathy Rakowski (Editor), Cathy A. Rakowski (Editor), Irene Tinker (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.1995
• EAN: 9780813321073
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-2107-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Latin America in Global Perspe
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziale und ethische Themen, Entwicklungsländer, Entwicklungsstudien