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1. Global Perspectives on Gender Equality

   Reversing the Gaze

   Edited by Naila Kabeer, Agneta Stark, Edda Magnus

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to reflect on Nordic approaches to gender equality. The contributors to the book seek to explore from a comparative perspective the...

   Published September 23rd 2009 by Routledge
2. Warm Hands in Cold Age

   Gender and Aging

   Edited by Nancy Folbre, Lois Shaw, Agneta Stark

   Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generations. Scholars give much less attention to who does the actual work of day-to-day care for those no longer able to care for themselves; and although...

   Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge