Gender & Development Books

New and Published Books

1. Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care

   Worlds Apart

   Edited by Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Gender and Sexuality in India

   Selling Sex in Chennai

   By Salla Sariola

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however,...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sex Trafficking in South Asia

   Telling Maya's Story

   By Mary Crawford

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Microcredit and Women's Empowerment

   A Case Study of Bangladesh

   By Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, Jim McAllister

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Using a case study of Bangladesh, and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates claims of the success of microcredit, as well as the critiques of it, in the context of women’s empowerment. It confronts the distinction between women’s increasing wealth as a...

   Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Gender Imperative

   Human Security Vs State Security

   Edited by Asha Hans, Betty A. Reardon

   The book asserts that human security derives from the experience and expectation of human well-being which depends on four essential conditions: a life sustaining environment, the meeting of essential physical needs, respect for the identity and dignity of persons and groups, protection from...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge India
7. Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work

   Edited by Debbie Budlender

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Across the world, unpaid care work - unpaid housework, care of persons, and "volunteer" work - is done predominantly by women. This book presents and compares unpaid care work patterns in seven different countries. It analyzes data drawn from large-scale time use surveys carried out under the...

   Published June 22nd 2010 by Routledge
8. Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

   By Amy Lind

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives,...

   Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Gender Circuits

   Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age

   By Eve Shapiro

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
10. Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development

    Edited by Sara Horrell, Hazel Johnson, Paul Mosley

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Accumulation of assets to enable the diversification of activities has been established as crucial in helping the rural poor escape poverty. The empowerment of women has been identified as a way to overcome inefficiencies in the allocation of resources within the family and so improve agrarian...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge