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OverviewHalf the world's population now lives in cities. Governments andagencies have made housing the poor a priority, but few studies orinitiatives focus on women's needs. Based on research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with theSelf-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), this book maps theconstraints and opportunities that low-income women throughout theGlobal South face in securing property, which remainsoverwhelmingly in male hands. Their vulnerabilities open a window toassess not only land tenure and property laws but also theoreticalapproaches to gender and development. Although the developmentcommunity holds out microcredit financing as one potential solution,these women's stories reveal its glaring limitations. By highlighting the importance of property as a material andsymbolic asset in women's empowerment, this book carves out newintellectual space in the study of gender and development. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bipasha BaruahPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780774819275ISBN 10: 0774819278 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 07 November 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 Minding the Gap: Gender and Property Ownership 2 Locating Gender and Property in Development Discourse 3 Place Matters: Orientation to Research Location and Context 4 Complicated Lives: Urban Women and Multiple Vulnerabilities 5 Gendered Realities: Property Ownership and TenancyRelationships 6 Women and Housing Microfinance 7 Partnership Projects for Urban Basic Services 8 Conclusions: Seeing the Forest and the Trees Appendices Notes References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBipasha Baruah is an assistant professor ofinternational studies at California State University, Long Beach. Shehas also served as a gender specialist on CIDA's Eastern CaribbeanEconomic Management Program and as a consultant on gender andenvironmental issues to Foreign Affairs Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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