Volume 28, Issue 3: Tactics and Trade-offs: Revisiting the Links Between Gender and Poverty
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Editorial: Tactics and Trade?Offs:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries The contributions in this Bulletin challenge the growing tendency of development agencies to conflate gender issues with poverty concerns. The selective terms on which this has been done has allowed issues of ... -
From ‘Rotten Wives’ to ‘Good Mothers’:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries This article encompasses a critical review of new collective models of the household, together with a discussion of gender power and its key implications. These include understanding ‘the household’ as a political ... -
Women-Headed Households: Poorest of the Poor?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Women-headed households are commonly regarded as the ‘poorest of the poor’. Not only do they seem to be disproportionately concentrated among low-income groups, but female headship itself is seen to exacerbate poverty. Yet ... -
From Rags to Riches:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries This article examines the contradictory implications of rising rural incomes – generated through export crop production – for women in a rural community of south?eastern Iran. It uses two different, but related, ... -
Linking Home and Market:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries This article identifies changing labour market relations in West Bengal agriculture and argues that these cannot be fully explained without extending the analysis beyond paid work to the questions of who does ... -
Thoughts on Poverty from a South Asian Rubbish Dump:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries The author reflects on the interlocking circuits of accumulation and consumption that characterise the management of household solid waste or garbage in two South Asian cities. She examines the multiple axes ... -
Reproduction and Poverty in Sub?Saharan Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries Ideas about poverty and gender in Africa have been built in part on a conventional model of poverty and fertility, which implies that specific policy interventions such as female education will have synegistic ... -
‘If You Build It, Will They Come?’:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries Primary schooling is considered in policy circles to be an effective means to enhance the income and welfare of poor households, with particularly high returns for girls. Education achievement in India has, ... -
Literacy, Gender and Vulnerability:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries This article explores the complex relationship between ‘illiteracy’ and women's vulnerabilities. Based on ethnographic field work in southern Ghana during the pilot phase of a national functional literacy ... -
Gender and Land Rights:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries This article argues that the goals of social justice, poverty alleviation and gender equality within the post?apartheid government's land reform programme are threatened by government's neo?liberal macroeconomic ... -
Men in Women's Groups:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries The article is an examination of the meanings associated with women's clubs in sub?Saharan Africa. Such clubs have frequently been treated by donors as the preferred vehicle for policies of poverty alleviation. ... -
Post Poverty, Gender and Development?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1997)Summaries Poverty reduction lies at the heart of development discourses and practice. Yet it is a notion which is rooted in Enlightenment thought, and increasingly questioned by the intellectual currents which deny ...
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