In this book Chant evaluates the results of her extensive research on women and poverty in third world countries: the Phillipines, Mexico, Costa Rica and the Gambia. She critically discusses general assumptions on the role of female headed housholds in poverty and argues that va…
"In Gender, Generation and Poverty Sylvia Chant challenges the 'feminisation of poverty' on the basis of recent fieldwork in The Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. Interviews with over 220 women and men of different ages at the grassroots, as well as with 40 professionals in in…
"In Gender, Generation and Poverty Sylvia Chant challenges the ‘feminisation of poverty’ on the basis of recent fieldwork in The Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. Interviews with over 220 women and men of different ages at the grassroots, as well as with 40 professionals in in…
The 'feminism of poverty' is widely viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, th…
With the erosion of strong class theory, sociologists have recently started to look at aspects of social stratification other than class. One of the most interesting new areas of investigation is the sociology of generations.
This work provides a multi-disciplinary approach to families in an ageing society. It will be useful to scholars and students of sociology, politics, demography, and social and health policy.
"Western families are undergoing considerable change. The demographic ageing of societies is increasing the number of living generations, and decreasing the number of living relatives within these generations. These ageing societies are also seeing an ageing of some life-transit…
"Paul Mazgaj's study of the Young Right provides several fresh perspectives. First, he establishes that, very much like many of their contemporaries on the political Left, Brasillach, Maulnier, and their friends sought to translate the cultural authority they derived from their …
This pioneering volume uses modern statistical and simulation techniques to explain the process of wealth transmission and the persistent problem of the unequal distribution of wealth. These papers reflect a shift from the traditional cross-sectional measurement to an intertempo…
