Shifting burdens : gender and agrarian change under neoliberalism / edited by Shahra Razavi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Razavi, Shahra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in rural development--Case studies.

Women in rural development.

Rural women--Case studies.

Rural women.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xix, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2002.

Summary:

Over the past ten years neoliberal policy shifts in rural development across the globe have reduced the role of government and switched costs of services to the rural poor themselves. But what are the gender effects of this change?

The regionally diverse case studies in this book provide an empirically-grounded account of these changes, and allow a critical assessment of explicit and implicit premises in 'gender and development' orthodoxy.

The contributors unravel the ways in which economic and social structures, institutions, and policy outcomes are affected by gender as a social relationship. They consider how far a "diversified livelihoods strategy," touted as the means by which rural families are struggling to improve their standard of living, accurately describes what is taking place on the ground.

Contents:

2 Gender and the Expansion of Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Uganda / Deborah Kasente, Matthew Lockwood, Jessica Vivian, Ann Whitehead 35

3 Land Reform and the Empowerment of Rural Women in Postapartheid South Africa / Cherryl Walker 67

4 "From Where Have All the Flowers Come?" Women Workers in Mexico's Nontraditional Markets / Kirsten Appendini 93

5 "Leaving the Rice Fields, but Not the Countryside" Gender, Livelihoods Diversification, and Pro-Poor Growth in Rural Vietnam / Naila Kabeer, Tran Thi Van Anh 109

6 Impact of Microfinance Programs on Poverty and Gender Equality: Some Evidence from Indian NGOs / D. Rajasekhar 151

7 Making a Difference? Gender and Participatory Development / Andrea Cornwall 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-253) and index.

ISBN:

1565491432

OCLC:

48588357