Lourdes Beneria, Günseli Berik, Maria Floro

Gender, Development and Globalization

Economics as If All People Mattered

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By combining theoretical, empirical, and political perspectives and discussing cutting-edge debates around development, globalization, economic restructuring, and feminist economics, Gender,Development and Globalization presents the ultimate primer on global feminist economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780415537483
• ISBN-10: 0415537487
• Artikelnr.: 39595495

Autorenporträt

Lourdes Beneria is Professor of City and Regional Planning and former director of the Gender and Global Change Program and of the Latin American Studies Program at Cornell University. Her work has focused on gender and development, paid/unpaid work, globalization, labor markets and structural adjustment policies, particularly in Latin America. Günseli Berik is Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA. Her research and teaching is in the fields of development economics, gender and development, feminist economics, and political economy of ethnicity, gender, and class. Berik is co-editor of the journal Feminist Economics. Maria S. Floro is Professor of Economics and co-director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics at American University. Her publications include Credit Markets and the New Institutional Economics, Women's Work in the World Economy, and articles on time allocation, unpaid work, finance, informal employment, vulnerability and poverty.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Gender and Development: A Historical
Overview 2. The Study of Women and Gender in Economics 3. Markets,
Globalization and Gender 4. Labor Markets under Globalization 5. Paid and
Unpaid Work: Meanings and Debates 6. Development as if People Mattered