Gender & Development Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities:

   Latin American and African Perspectives

   Edited by Rachel Sieder, John McNeish

   Series: Law, Development and Globalization

   Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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 September 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Building Inclusive Cities

   Women’s Safety and the Right to the City

   Edited by Carolyn Whitzman, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky, Margaret Shaw, Kalpana Viswanath

   Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women’s safety in the context of poverty reduction and social...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Gender, Development and Environmental Governance

   Theorizing Connections

   By Seema Arora-Jonsson

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. On the Edges of Development

   Cultural Interventions

   Edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, Debashish Munshi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa

   Edited by Howard Stein, Amal Fadlalla

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The concept of security has often narrowly focused on issues surrounding the protection of national borders from outside threats. However, a richer idea of human security has become increasingly important in the past decade or so. The aim is to incorporate various dimensions of the downside risks...

   Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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