LEADER 04878oam 2200625 a 450 001 9910781961003321 005 20110330191548.0 010 $a979-82-16-03712-5 010 $a1-283-31746-X 010 $a1-84972-934-4 010 $a9786613317469 010 $a1-59884-426-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9798216037125 035 $a(OCoLC)760056437 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL5300 035 $a(OCoLC)701807987 035 $a(DLC)ABC1598844261 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000061780 100 $a20110328e20112023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen in developing countries $ea reference handbook /$fKaren L. Kinnear 210 1$aSanta Barbara, Calif. :$cABC-CLIO,$dc2011. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 348 pages) 225 1 $aContemporary world issues 300 $aDescription based on print version record. 311 $a1-59884-425-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Preface; List of Developing Countries; 1: Background and History; Basic Concepts Important to the Study of Women in Developing Countries; Sex Roles versus Gender Roles; Social Stratification; Patriarchy; Cultural Relativism; History of Women in Development; The United Nations; Development Agencies and Approaches; Structural Adjustment Programs; Millennium Development Goals; Overview of Women's Status and Experiences in the World Today; Family Relations; Marriage; Preference for Males; Education; Health Care; Nutrition; Occupational Health; Contraceptives; Abortion 327 $aMaternal MortalityFemale Genital Mutilation; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Prostitution and Sex Trafficking; Violence against Women; Employment; Women's Rights as Human Rights; Empowerment of Women; References; 2: Problems, Controversies, and Solutions; Problems; Tradition; Education; Marriage and Family; Preference for Male Children; Child Marriage; Domestic Violence; Dowry; Health Care; Family Planning; Maternal Mortality; Prostitution and Sex Trafficking; HIV/AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Women and Work; Ability to Work Outside the Home; Gender Gap in Pay and Positions 327 $aMicroenterpriseLand Ownership and Property Rights; Information and Communications Technologies; Female Refugees and Victims of War; Controversies; Female Genital Mutilation; Abortion; Honor Killings; Solutions; References; 3: U.S. Concerns; Immigration; Asylum; Refugee Status; Determination of Asylum; Derivative Asylum; Reasons for Asylum; Female Genital Mutilation; Domestic Abuse, Rape; Religion; Forced Marriage; Detention While Awaiting Asylum Determination; Guestworker Programs in the United States; Trafficking; Immigrants' Life in the United States; Family Planning Policy 327 $aLack of Ratification by the United States of Key International ConventionsConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; The Convention on the Rights of the Child; References; 4: Chronology; References; 5: Biographical Sketches; Aminah Al-Said (1914-1995); Aduke Alakija (b. 1921); Corazon Aquino (1933-2009); Aung San Suu Kyi (b. 1945); Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916-2000); Ela Bhatt (b. 1933); Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007); Ester Boserup (1910-1999); Elise Boulding (1920-2010); Angie Brooks-Randolph (1928-2007); Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944) 327 $aVioleta Barrios de Chamorro (b. 1929)Eugenia Charles (1919-2005); Gaositwe Keagakwa Tibe Chiepe (b. 1926); Jeanne Martin Cisse? (b. 1926); Shirin Ebadi (b. 1947); Nawal El Saadawi (b. 1931); Ana Figuero (1908-1970); lndira Gandhi (1917-1984); Lydia Gueiler Tejada (b. 1921); Asha Hagi (b. 1962); Asma Jahangir (b. 1952); Annie Ruth Baeta Jiagge (1918-1996); Fatima Jinnah (1893-1967); Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (b. 1938); Begum Liaquat Ali Khan (1905-1990); Gwendoline Konie (1938-2009); Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (b. 1946); Bertha Lutz (1894-1976); Wangari Maathai (b. 1940) 327 $aRigoberta Menchu Tum (b. 1959) 330 $aThis book provides a much-needed survey of the discrimination and violence against women in developing countries, and identifies the literature and resources available about this topic. 410 0$aContemporary world issues. 606 $aWomen's rights$zDeveloping countries 606 $aWomen$zDeveloping countries 606 $aWomen$zDeveloping countries$xSocial conditions 615 0$aWomen's rights 615 0$aWomen 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.409172/4 700 $aKinnear$b Karen L$01522014 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781961003321 996 $aWomen in developing countries$93761522 997 $aUNINA