Searching for security : women's responses to economic transformations / edited by Isa Baud and Ines Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baud, I. S. A.

Smyth, Ines, 1948-

Series:

Routledge studies in development and society.

Routledge studies in development and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Developing countries--Economic conditions.

Women.

Women in development--Developing countries.

Women in development.

Economic security--Developing countries.

Economic security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Human Security is a development buzzword of the 1990s. To attain security people need to be safe from natural disasters, such as famine, and 'man-made' problems, such as unemployment. Women are a particularly insecure section of society with the impact of deprivation disproportionately shouldered by women throughout the developing world. Searching for Security examines how economic, political and environmental factors have contributed to increased gender insecurity in the last decade. Analyzing the impacts of insecurity-inducing global changes on the lives of women throughout the

Contents:

1. Searching for security : women's responses to economic transformations / Isa Baud and Ines Smyth

2. Global change and insecurity : are women the problem or the solution? / Ruth Pearson

3. The retreat of the state in the English-speaking Caribbean : the impact on women and their responses / Gemma Tang Nain

4. Informal social security in Africa from a gender perspective / Gudrun Lachenmann

5. In sickness and in health : gender issues in health policy and their implications for development in the 1990s / Jo Beall

6. How can Hungarian women lose what they have never had? / Maria Adamik

7. Economic restructuring in Malaysia : implications for women workers / Chee Heng Leng and Cecilia Ng Choon Sim

8. Targeting woman-headed households and woman-maintained families in developing countries / Mayra Buvinic and Geeta Rao Gupta.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-81253-3

1-317-79882-1

1-317-79883-X

9781315812533

OCLC:

880440121