ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical studies. The international reach and scope of the Handbook and the contributors’ experiences allow engagement with and reflection upon these bridging and linking themes, as well as the examining the politics and policy of how we think about and practice gender and development.
Organized into eight inter-related sections, the Handbook contains over 50 contributions from leading scholars, looking at conceptual and theoretical approaches, environmental resources, poverty and families, women and health related services, migration and mobility, the effect of civil and international conflict, and international economies and development. This Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and practitioners in Geography, Development Studies, Gender Studies and related disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |69 pages
The making of the field: concepts and case studies
chapter |11 pages
Gender and Religion
part |106 pages
Environmental resources: production and protection
chapter |11 pages
Exploring Gendered Rural Spaces of Agrobiodiversity Management
chapter |9 pages
Colonisation and Fire
part |59 pages
Perspectives on population and poverty
chapter |10 pages
Caribbean Kinship Research
part |48 pages
Health, survival and services
part |96 pages
Mobilities: services and spaces
chapter |10 pages
Gendered Costs to the “Left Behind”
part |52 pages
Conflict and post-conflict: victims or victors?
chapter |12 pages
Researching Sexual Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
part |68 pages
Economies: empowerment and enrichment
chapter |6 pages
Crisis of Capital Accumulation and Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction
chapter |14 pages
The Entrepreneurial Landscape for African Women
part |62 pages
Development organizations: people and institutions