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1. Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

   Edited by Janet Henshall Momsen

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Tourism and Agriculture

   New Geographies of Consumption, Production and Rural Restructuring

   Edited by Rebecca Torres, Janet Momsen

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Gender and Development

   2nd Edition

   By Janet Momsen

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   Global financial problems, rising food prices, climate change, international migration – increasingly by women – conflict situations in many poor countries, the spread of tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever and the increased incidence of HIV/AIDS and TB, and changing...

   Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge
4. Gender and Development

   Edited by Janet Momsen

   Series: Critical Concepts in Development Studies

   It is increasingly apparent that the growing challenges facing development scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners in the twenty-first century require a more sophisticated understanding of the importance of gender than has hitherto been the case. At a time when the forces of globalization are...

   Published June 18th 2008 by Routledge
5. Gender and Development

   2nd Edition

   By Janet Henshall Momsen

   Since the Classic Women and Development in the Third World was published over a decade ago, a new awareness of the importance of gender roles in development has grown. Gender and Development provides an introduction to the topic that is based on the author's wide field experience. Topical and...

   Published October 29th 2003 by Routledge
6. Gender and Development

   2nd Edition

   By Janet Henshall Momsen

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   In third world countries gender roles are different from those in western countries. This reality is of utmost interest for development policy makers. planners and project designers from donor countries.More often than not, development projects, sponsored and implemented by western organizations,...

   Published October 29th 2003 by Routledge
7. Different Places, Different Voices

   Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America

   Edited by Vivian Kinnaird, Janet Momsen

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. Recognising the significance of place, this is a book informed by the voices of female geographers from the...

   Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
8. Women and Development in the Third World

   By Janet Momsen

   Series: Routledge Introductions to Development

   For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by economic crisis, the legacy of colonialism, as well as patriarchal attitudes and economic crises.Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor...

   Published March 6th 1991 by Routledge