Joan P Mencher

Where Did All The Men Go?

Female-headed/female-supported Households In Cross-cultural Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines female-headed/female-supported households in a wide variety of local contexts and links them to wider economic, social, and political processes. It focuses on the importance of culture and the ways in which culture interacts with race, class, and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780367213473
• ISBN-10: 0367213478
• Artikelnr.: 56923178

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Poverty Versus "Purse Power": The Political Economy of
the Mother-Child Family III 3. An Etic Model for the Scientific Study of
the Causes of Matrifocality 4. A Way Out of No Way: Female-Headed
Households in Jamaica Reconsidered 5. Caught in the Shift: The Impact of
Industrialization on Female-Headed Households in Curacao, Netherlands
Antilles 6. Some Conceptual Issues: Female Single-Parent Families in the
United States 7. Similarities and Differences: Female-Headed Households in
Brazil and Colombia 8. An Ignored Population: Female-Headed Households
Among Refugees in Africa 9. Women-Headed Households from the Perspective of
an Egyptian Village 10. Female-Headed, Female-Supported Households in
India: Who Are They and What Are Their Survival Strategies? 11.
Female-Headed Households in Rural Bangladesh: A Survey 12. Defining and
Targeting Female-Headed Households for Development Assistance in South Asia
13. Policy Planning for Single Female-Headed Families: What Is Needed in
the United States 14. Conclusion: Pulling It All Together