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Women in Developing Countries: A Policy Focus
Author(s): Kathleen A Staudt (Author), Jane S Jaquette (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 1983
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 0866562265
- ISBN-13: 9780866562263
Book Description
Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries. Drawing from theory and practice, authorities examine how development in any kind of economy marginalizes women, illustrate the existence of a feminist awareness among impoverished rural women, demonstrate the importance of understanding the policy and program implementation institutions within which any transition toward more women-sensitive change is to occur, and suggest the kind of research that would be useful and credible to policymakers. Each of the controversial chapters reflects a new phase in women and development research, and each is a reminder that the fundamental issue–women’s subordination–remains key to theory and practice in development.
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Kathleen A Staudt, ane S. Jaquette
