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Women and the Family
Published: 1996
Pages: 64
eBook: 9780855988760
Paperback: 9780855983529
Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women's opportunities. We need to understand the underlying power structures and expectations which, operate in particular family forms within target communities, if development initiatives and family-support policies are to benefit women.
- Editorial
- Caroline Sweetman
- Avoice of alarm: a historian's view of the family
- Anna Arroba
- Patriarchy and development in the Arab world
- Suad Joseph
- Fighting female infanticide by working with midwives: an Indian case study
- Ranjani K Murthy
- Female-headed families; a comparative perspective of the Caribbean and the developed world
- Shelia Stuart
- Structures and processes: land, families, and gender relations
- susie Jacobs
- Women, the law, and the family in Tunisia
- Hafidha Chekir
- Marginalisation and gay families in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Dinnys Luciano Ferdinand
- Child-care and the benefits trap: a case from the UK
- Annie Oliver
- Interview: Maria Isabal Plata of PROFAMILIA
- Resources
- Book review: Kampala Women Getting By: Well-Being in the Time of AIDS by Sandra Wallman et al
- Ambreena S Manji
- Further reading
- NGOs and UN organisations
- Audio-visual resources.
Caroline Sweetman
Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender & Development and works for Oxfam GB.
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