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Gender and Development: The Economic Basis of Womens Power

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Drawing from the leading scholarship in the field, Gender and Development: The Economic Basis of Womens Power helps students develop a foundational understanding of the significant role that gender plays in developing societies. Award-winning scholars Samuel Cohn and Rae Lesser Blumberg have carefully selected and edited a collection of readings that encourage students to think critically about the economic power (or lack thereof) of women, and apply key concepts and theory related to gender and current development issues. From womens participation in labor markets to their financial autonomy and purchasing power, these readings enable students to explore the economic implications of female power and the importance of womens strategic indispensability.   

Key Features:

  • Distinguished scholars in the field offer students distinctive personalized points of view that extend the study of womens power, gender, and development in new and interesting directions.
  • A wide range of countries/regions, perspectives, and issues is explored to enable instructors the flexibility to introduce students to a variety of key concepts in a manner that works for their classrooms.
  • Analysis of the cause and effect of womens power offers students insights on the inter-relation between gender and development.
  • Guide to the Book provides students with context for understanding gender and development, as well as introduces students to the key theories that they will explore throughout the book. 
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Product Details
  • Weight: 570g
  • Dimensions: 177 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Mar 2021
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781506396637

About

Samuel Cohn is professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. He is the founder and first president of the American Sociological Association section on development. He has won the American Sociological Associations Jessie Barnard Award for the best book on gender his Process of Occupational Sex-Typing (Temple 1985). Among his other works are a general book on race and gender discrimination in the United States studies of race discrimination in American cities a book on Brazilian economic development and studies of development processes in 19th century Norway and the British Celtic fringe. He recently won a prize from the American Sociological Association for his service to development sociology. Rae Lesser Blumberg is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Much of her academic work involves her general theory of gender stratification and theory of gender and development. In both womens versus mens relative economic power (defined as control of income and other assets) is posited as the keybut not solefactor affecting gender equality and many other development-related outcomes. She has worked in virtually all sectors of development in 48 countries since Peace Corps in Venezuela with the World Bank USAID UNESCO UNDP and other UN agencies the African Development Bank Inter-American Development Bank various international nongovernmental organizations and individual governments. She was president of the Sociology of Development Section of the American Sociological Association in 20142015. Her BS MA and PhD are from Northwestern University and she is the author/coauthor of more than 100 publications including eight books.

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