Briavel Holcomb, Meredeth Turshen

Women's Lives and Public Policy (eBook, PDF)

The International Experience

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

At all levels of government--from the international to the local--public policies are formulated mainly by men, but their impacts are felt, sometimes differently, by women, men, and children. This book considers the impact of public policy on various aspects of women's lives, including sex and birth, marriage and death, work and child rearing, and women's responses to those policies. Written by scholars who have lived on five continents, the chapters span the First and Third Worlds, with several providing case illustrations of policies affecting women in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Written by scholars from several disciplines, the volume includes the fields of economics, politics, and planning. Literature also is covered, along with women's fiction as a source of women's opinions. The work is divided into two sections. The first section, Economic Policies and Migration, considers the impact of economic and demographic policies. The second section, Sex and Marriage, Violence and Control, considers policies relating to women's interpersonal relationships. Urban culture is discussed in an epilogue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313391132
• Artikelnr.: 37828433

Autorenporträt

MEREDETH TURSHEN is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Community Health at Rutgers University. Her most recent book is Women and Health in Africa (1991).

BRIAVEL HOLCOMB is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Community Health at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Charlotte Bunch Preface by Meredeth Turshen Economic Policies
and Migration Confronting Austerity: Women's Responses to Economic Reform
by Victoria Daines and David Seddon Empowerment Strategies of Poor Urban
Women Under the Chilean Dictatorship by Joseph L. Scarpaci Women's Work and
the Urban Household Economy in Developing Countries by Briavel Holcomb and
Tamar Y. Rothenberg The Impact of Population Control on Health Policy in
Bangladesh by Betsy Hartmann Migration, Public Policy, and Women's
Experience by Meredeth Turshen, Hélène Bretin and Annie Thébaud-Mony Sex
and Marriage, Violence and Control Violence Against Women: An Obstacle to
Development by Roxanna Carrillo Industrial Prostitution and South Korean
Dependent Development by Heisoo Shin Planning for Prostitution: An Analysis
of Thailand's Sex Industry by Catherine Hill Dowry Murders in India: A
Preliminary Examination of the Historical Evidence by Veena Talwar
Oldenburg Paying the Price of Change: Women, Modernization, and Arranged
Marriages in India by Uma Narayan Representations of Urban Life in African
Women's Literature by Carole Boyce Davies Notes References Index