Shifting Burdens: Gender and Agrarian Change under Neoliberalism
Shahra Razavi, editor | | ISBN: 978-1-56549-143-4 $29.95 |
| ISBN: 978-1-56549-600-2 $29.95 |
| ISBN: 978-1-56549-600-2 $29.95 |
| 2002/265 pages/LC: 2001058309 A Kumarian Press Book |
DESCRIPTION
The authors of Shifting Burdens explore the often overlooked gender-related effects of the neoliberal policy shifts in rural development that have reduced the role of government and switched costs of services to the rural poor themselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shahra Razavi is chief of research and data at UN Women.
CONTENTS
- Foreword—Thandika Mkandawire.
- Introduction—the Editor.
- Gender and the Expansion of Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Uganda—D. Kasente, M. Lockwood, J. Vivian, and A. Whitehead.
- Land Reform and the Empowerment of Rural Women in Postapartheid South Africa—C. Walker.
- "From Where Have All the Flowers Come?": Women Workers in Mexico’s Nontraditional Markets—K. Appendini.
- "Leaving the Rice Fields, but Not the Countryside": Gender, Livelihoods, Diversification, and Pro-Poor Growth in Rural Vietnam—N. Kabeer and T.T. Van Anh.
- Impact of Microfinance Programs on Poverty and Gender Equality: Some Evidence from Indian NGOs—D. Rajasekhar.
- Making a Difference?: Gender and Participatory Development—A. Cornwall.
"Groundbreaking.... The authors challenge prevailing orthodoxies related to market liberalization, agrarian change, and gender relations and provide valuable new insights for both theory and policy.” —Zenebeworke Tadesse, Forum of Social Studies