Poverty in the 1990's
Subtitle: the responses of urban women
By: edited by Fatima Meer
Publisher: UNESCO and The International Social Science Council
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Urban women; Economic conditions; Poor women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Women and poverty in the 1990's: the responses of women in South Africa / Fatima Meer; title: Structural adjustment in Zimbabwe: the way forward for low income urban women? / Nazneen Kanji; title: Using the courts to obtain relief: Akan women and family courts in Ghana / Gwendolyn Mikell; title: Women and poverty in urban Latin America: Mexican and Costa Rican experiences / Sylvia H. Chant; title: Women's survival strategies in urban areas: Caricom and Guyana / Sybil Patterson; title: Housing and household survival strategies in urban areas: a case study of the Solanda settlement, Quito, Ecuador / Lillia Rodriguez; title: Strong Detroit women in global perspective: their struggle for university degrees and 'passports out of poverty' / Shirley Nuss; title: Devising an empowerment paradigm for women in the Philippines: the importance of the family in urban micro-enterprises / Fe B. Mangahas and Virginia J. Pasalo; title: Kitchen to kitchen via the market: poor women becoming self-reliant, a case study from India / Nishitha Sharma; title: From survival to self-reliance: the experience of Self-Employed women's Association (SEWA) / Ela Bhatt.