"Written by Gita Sen and Caren Grown for the project Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-116.)
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction ---- I. Gender and Class in Development Experience. 1. From the Vantage Point of Poor Women --- 2. The Colonial Heritage --- 3. Resource Inequalities and 'Open' Economic Policies --- 4. Basic Needs Strategies --- 5. The Development Project Experience --- 6. Population Programmes and Reproductive Rights ---- II. Systematic Crises, Reproduction Failures, and Women's Potential. 1. The Food-Fuel-Water Crises --- 2. The Balance of Payments and Debt Crises --- 3. Militarization and Violence --- 4. A Crises of Culture ---- III. Alternative Visions, Strategies, and Methods. 1. Visions --- 2. Strategies --- 3. Empowering Ourselves Through Organizations: Types and Methods.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"book synthesizes and analyzes three decades of economic, political, and cultural policies and politics toward third world women. Focusing on the impact of the current global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, and fundamentalism - the authors show how, through organization, poor women have begun to mobilize creative and effective development strategies to pull themselves and their families out of immiserating circumstances." -- Back cover.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Development, crises, and alternative visions.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Third World women's perspectives
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Women-- Developing countries-- Social conditions.
Women in development-- Developing countries.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HQ1240
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5
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D44
Book number
S46
1987
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Sen, Gita.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Grown, Caren.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (Project)