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Young girls are kept at home to care for dependants and miss out on education, while others face sexual exploitation. Elderly women's health needs are ignored when their reproductive years end, and many face the economic and social marginalization which accompanies widowhood.
This collection from development practitioners and feminist activists considers how age interacts with gender identity to create particular forms of economic and social marginalization, as well as different kinds of opportunity, for women and men in different contexts throughout the world.
Contributors include Pratima Poudel and Jenny Carryer on AIDS in Nepal and the trafficking of girls; Sabina Raschid on BRAC's Adolescent Family Life Education in Bangladesh; and Rachel Slater on the life histories of Xhosa women during the years of apartheid in South Africa.
Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender and Development.
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. This book links gender issues to the life-courses of women and men. Gender-based discrimination is experienced differently according to age, generation, and status in the family. In particular, female children and elderly women perform an enormous amount of the worlds work. endure appalling abuse of the human rights, and receive disproportionately few benefits from development. Writers here call for development policy and practice to recognise this vast contribution, and enforce the rights of women of all ages to an equal share of development outcomes. Other topics included here are the use of life-histories in understanding social and economic change; the economic survival of older people and children in an era of AIDS; the vulnerability of older men to gender-based abuse; girl-trafficking and AIDS; educating adolescent girls and boys to eradicate gender inequality; and the role of employment in changing young womens status in society. Countries featured include Bangladesh, Mexico, Jordan, Tanzania, and Nepal. Authors include Maribel Blasco and Ann Varley, Sabina Rashid, and Sylvia Beales. Nº de ref. del artículo: SONG0855984503
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Librería: Shadow Books, Norwich, Reino Unido
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Librería: Books Puddle, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New. pp. 80. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2698313999
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