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Title Different places, different voices : gender and development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America / edited by Janet Henshall Momsen and Vivian Kinnaird
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1993

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Description xvii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series International studies of women and place
International studies of women and place.
Contents Geography, gender and development / Vivian Kinnaird and Janet Momsen -- Gender and geography in Africa / Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf -- Household energy supply and women's work in Ghana / Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf -- Women's role and participation in farm and community tree-growing activities in Kiambu District, Kenya / B. Hyma and Perez Nyamwange -- Agricultural production and women's time budgets in Uganda / Victoria M. Mwaka -- The impact of labour-saving devices on the lives of rural African women: grain mills in the Gambia / Hazel Barrett and Angela Browne -- The impact of contraceptive use among urban traders in Nigeria: Ibadan traders and modernisation / B. Folasade Iyun and E. A. Oke -- Women and gender in geography: an overview from South Asia / Saraswati Raju -- Gender relations in rural Bangladesh: aspects of differential norms about fertility, mortality and health practices / K. Maudood Elahi -- Seasonality, wage labor and women's contribution to household income in western India / Elizabeth Oughton -- Invisible female agricultural labour in India / Parvati Raghuram -- Assessing rural development programmes in India from a gender perspective / Rameswari Varma -- Access of female plantation workers in Sri Lanka to basic-needs provision / Vidyamali Samarasinghe -- Women as agents and beneficiaries of rural housing programmes in Sri Lanka / Yoga Rasanayagam -- Women's roles in rural Sri Lanka / Anoja Wickramasinghe -- Gender and geography in South-East Asia and Oceania: a regional overview / Janet Momsen with Nancy Davis Lewis -- Feminist geography in Taiwan and Hong Kong / Nora Chiang -- Gender and the quality of life of households in raft-houses, Temerloh, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia / Asmah Ahmad -- Development and factory women: negative perceptions from a Malaysian source area / Amriah Buang -- Women and agriculture in Western Samoa / Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop -- Gender and geography in Latin America: a historical perspective / Janet Momsen -- Women and geography in Brazil / Sonia Alves Salio -- The role of women's organisations and groups in community development: a case study of Bolivia / Jane Benton -- Deconstructing the household: women's roles under commodity relations in Highland Bolivia / Colin Sage -- Women's roles in colonisation: a Colombian case study / Donny Meertens -- Housewifisation and colonisation in the Colombian rainforest / Janet Townsend -- The role of gender in peasant migration: conceptual issues from the Peruvian Andes / Sarah Radcliffe
Summary This recognises the significance of place in the developing world, challenging Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in the analysis of the changing lives of the women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania
Analysis Women Social conditions
Notes "Consists of selected papers given at the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Workshop held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in April, 1989"--Pref
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Feminist theory -- Congresses.
Human geography -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Sexual division of labor -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Women in development -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Kinnaird, Vivian, 1962-
Momsen, Janet Henshall.
LC no. 92018427
ISBN 0415075386
0415075637