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Full Title

Development Crises and Alternative Visions Third World Women\'s Perspectives 1st Edition

Author(s)

Gita Sen, Caren Grown

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781134156894, 9781853830006, 9781138149359, 9780853457183, 9781315070179, 9781134156825, 9781134156962

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.