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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823479503321

Titolo

Searching for security : women's responses to economic transformations / / edited by Isa Baud and Ines Smyth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-315-81253-3

1-317-79882-1

1-317-79883-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in development and society

Altri autori (Persone)

BaudI. S. A

SmythInes <1948->

Disciplina

305.42/091724

305.4

Soggetti

Women - Developing countries - Economic conditions

Women in development - Developing countries

Economic security - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Searching for security : women's responses to economic transformations / Isa Baud and Ines Smyth -- 2. Global change and insecurity : are women the problem or the solution? / Ruth Pearson -- 3. The retreat of the state in the English-speaking Caribbean : the impact on women and their responses / Gemma Tang Nain -- 4. Informal social security in Africa from a gender perspective / Gudrun Lachenmann -- 5. In sickness and in health : gender issues in health policy and their implications for development in the 1990s / Jo Beall -- 6. How can Hungarian women lose what they have never had? / Maria Adamik -- 7. Economic restructuring in Malaysia : implications for women workers / Chee Heng Leng and Cecilia Ng Choon Sim -- 8. Targeting woman-headed households and woman-maintained families in developing countries / Mayra Buvinic and Geeta Rao Gupta.

Sommario/riassunto

Human Security is a development buzzword of the 1990s. To attain security people need to be safe from natural disasters, such as famine, and 'man-made' problems, such as unemployment. Women are a particularly insecure section of society with the impact of deprivation



disproportionately shouldered by women throughout the developing world. Searching for Security examines how economic, political and environmental factors have contributed to increased gender insecurity in the last decade. Analyzing the impacts of insecurity-inducing global changes on the lives of women throughout the