| Description |
x, 222 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Caroline O.N. Moser -- Women, human settlements, and housing : a conceptual framework for analysis and policy-making / Caroline O.N. Moser -- Domestic labour, decision-making, and dwelling construction : the experience of women in Queretaro, Mexico / Sylvia Chant -- The problems for woman-headed households in a low-income housing programme in Brazil / Leda M.V. Machado -- The struggle for shelter : women in a site and service project in Nairobi, Kenya / Paula Nimpuno-Parente -- New skills for women : a community development project in Colombo, Sri Lanka / Marina Fernando -- Government housing policy and its implications for women in Guyana / Linda Peake -- More than bricks and mortar : women's participation in self-help housing in Managua, Nicaragua / Irene Vance -- Mobilization is women's work : struggles for infrastructure in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline O.N. Moser -- Postscript : what hope for the future? / Caroline O.N. Moser and Linda Peake |
| Analysis |
Developing countries Women Housing |
| Notes |
"Published in the USA ... in association with Methuen, Inc." -- T.p. verso |
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Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 202-215 |
| Subject |
Women in community development -- Developing countries.
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Women -- Housing -- Developing countries.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Moser, Caroline O. N.
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Peake, Linda, 1956-
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| LC no. |
87017973 |
| ISBN |
0422618608 |
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0422619809 (soft) |
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