Women in Human Settlements Development
Author :
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Housing development
ISBN : 9789211312638
Author :
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Housing development
ISBN : 9789211312638
Author : Caroline O. N. Moser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Femmes - Logement - Pays en voie de développement
ISBN : 9780422618601
Author : Patricia Kennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136739629
In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women. The collection seeks to contribute to comparative housing debates by highlighting the gendered nature of housing processes, locating these processes within wider structured and institutionalized relations of power, and to show how these socially constructed relationships are culturally contingent, and manifest and transform over time and space. The international contributors draw on a wide range of empirical evidence relating to labour market participation, wealth distribution, family formation and education to demonstrate the complexity and gendered nature of the interlocking arenas of production, reproduction and consumption and the implications for the housing opportunities of women in different social contexts. Worldwide examples are drawn from Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA.
Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 198?
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780855983482
This text studies aspects of urban life from a gender perspective, with social, technical and political aspects of urban life. Articles cover gender-sensitive urban planning; work migration; community urban regeneration schemes; health care for poor urban women; and the dislocation and loss of home experienced by refugees.
Author : Humphrey O. Webuye
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9789211313178
Author : Paul Pennartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429797176
First published in 1999, the primary focus of this book is what goes on inside the ‘black box’ of households, beginning with decision-making but branching out to develop a comprehensive view of the domestic domain. It brings together theoretical frameworks relevant to the study of family households from several root disciplines, each framework highlighting a different approach. Each approach is applied to important problems concerning the functioning of family households. The book focuses on households and their members as active agents who manage both material and immaterial resources. The private sector, to which family households belong, is not viewed as just responding to impulses from the formal economy and to public policies, but as a dynamic system in its own right. In the view of Paul Pennartz and Anke Niehof, households not only accommodate to social change but also mediate and generate social change. In the book key studies are presented which exemplify approaches and issues. The key studies cover a wide range of societies in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Africa, thus also exemplifying the comparative perspective, which is another important feature of the book. Pennartz and Niehof examine issues including the organisational approach and resource allocation, the power approach and the division of household production tasks and the opportunity structure approach and the housing market.
Author : Cathy Rakowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 042996935X
The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development policies and a reevaluation of the role of gender in their success or failure. Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment, there is also considerable evidence of women being empowered through their responses to the challenges of economic restructuring. Based on case study material from Eastern Europe, the Islamic nations, Africa, China, and Latin America, this volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations. The contributors argue persuasively that women may hold the key to sustainable development, an increasingly critical issue at a time when policymakers are reconsidering the full costs and benefits of a growth-fixated development model. One of the first to embody the new “gender and development” paradigm, this book reports on research at the frontiers of knowledge and theory about the gendered outcomes of economic transformation, restructuring, and social change. By incorporating “voices from the South,” it makes a provocative addition to our understanding of the political economy of development and of the relationship between world ecology and the world economy.
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN : 9781843690863