Inequalities
Subtitle: women and social policy in Peru, 1990-2000
By: Jelke Boesten.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271036700
Subjects: Poor women -- Government policy -- Peru; Poor women -- Services for -- Peru; Poor women -- Peru -- Social conditions; Equality -- Peru; Peru -- Social policy
Description: "Examines how food aid, population policies and policy against domestic violence reflected and reproduced existing inequalities based on race, class and gender in 1990s Peru"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intersecting inequalities; title: The Peruvian state and (poor) women; title: Food aid, motherhood, and women's work; title: Population policies, poverty, and women's bodies; title: Violence, democracy, and resistance; title: Revisiting women.