A Home Divided : Women and Income in the Third World / edited by: Daisy Dwyer and Judith Bruce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dwyer, Daisy, editor.

Bruce, Judith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Developing countries.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 263 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

A challenge to economic theories that view the household as a harmonious unit with a single decision-maker, this book shows that in the Third World the household is an arena of conflict marked by inequality and negotiation over income and expenditures. Dwyer and Bruce's introduction is followed by eleven field studies: four in Asia, four in Africa and the Middle East, and three in the Caribbean and Central America. These twelve essays, by economists, sociologists, anthropologists and demographers provide a cogent analysis of household structure dynamics and women's bargaining context. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in gender studies but also to ethnologists and other social scientists

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

The Material Consequences of Reproductive Failure in Rural South Asia

Intergenerational Contracts: Familial Roots of Sexual Stratification in Taiwan

Women Are Good with Money: Earning and Managing in an Indonesian City

Women's Work and Poverty: Women's Contribution to Household Maintenance in South India

Household Budgeting and Financial Management in a Lower-Income Cairo Neighborhood

The Nonpooling Household: A Challenge to Theory

Dynamic Approaches to Domestic Budgeting: Cases and Methods from Africa

Income Allocation and Marriage Options in Urban Zambia

The Constraints on and Release of Female Labor Power: Dominican Migration to the United States

The Impact of Agrarian Reform on Men's and Women's Incomes in Rural Honduras

Renegotiating the Marital Contract: lntrahousehold Patterns of Money Allocation and Women's Subordination Among Domestic Outworkers in Mexico City

The Black Four of Hearts: Toward a New Paradigm of Household Economics

REFERENCES CITED

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (de gruyter, viewed November 30, 2022).

ISBN:

0-8047-6582-0

OCLC:

1322125911