THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF GENDER AND POVERTY

In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage. This benchmark volume presents womens and mens experiences of gendered poverty with respect to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues including local to global economic transformations, family, age, ...