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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
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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