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Gender, Generation and Poverty

Paperback • 2007 • English

Gender, Generation and Poverty

By Sylvia Chant

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About the book

The `feminisation of poverty' is widely viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to `en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, the construct is only weakly substantiated. Its over-emphasis on income and on female household headship also conveys little of the contemporary complexities of gendered disadvantage. In Gender, Generation and Poverty S...Show more

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9781843769934

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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Published year

2007

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English

Original title

Gender, Generation and Poverty

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Paperback

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