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UNINA9910823479503321 |
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Titolo |
Searching for security : women's responses to economic transformations / / edited by Isa Baud and Ines Smyth |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-81253-3 |
1-317-79882-1 |
1-317-79883-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in development and society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BaudI. S. A |
SmythInes <1948-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Developing countries - Economic conditions |
Women in development - Developing countries |
Economic security - Developing countries |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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