Women and the family
By: edited by Caroline Sweetman.
Contributors: Sweetman, Caroline.; Oxfam.
Series: Oxfam focus on gender
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Women -- Social conditions -- Case studies.; Women -- Family relationships -- Case studies.; Women -- Economic conditions -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
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Table of contents: title: A voice of alarm: a historian's view of the family / Anna Arroba; title: Patriarchy and development in the Arab world / Suad Joseph; title: Fighting female infanticide by working with midwives: an Indian case study / Ranjani K. Murthy; title: Female-headed families: a comparative perspective of the Caribbean and the developed world / Sheila Stuart; title: Structures and processes: land, families, and gender relations / Susie Jacobs; title: Women, the law, and the family in Tunisia / Hafidha Chekir; title: Marginalisation and gay families in Latin America and the Caribbean / Dinnys Luciano Ferdinand; title: Child care and the benefits trap: a case from the UK / Annie Oliver.