Women's lives and public policy : the international experience
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Women's lives and public policy : the international experience
（Contributions in women's studies, no. 132）
Greenwood Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [187]-207
Includes index
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Description
At all levels of government--from the international to the local--public policies are formulated mainly by men, but their impacts are felt, sometimes differently, by women, men, and children. This book considers the impact of public policy on various aspects of women's lives, including sex and birth, marriage and death, work and child rearing, and women's responses to those policies. Written by scholars who have lived on five continents, the chapters span the First and Third Worlds, with several providing case illustrations of policies affecting women in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Written by scholars from several disciplines, the volume includes the fields of economics, politics, and planning. Literature also is covered, along with women's fiction as a source of women's opinions.
The work is divided into two sections. The first section, Economic Policies and Migration, considers the impact of economic and demographic policies. The second section, Sex and Marriage, Violence and Control, considers policies relating to women's interpersonal relationships. Urban culture is discussed in an epilogue.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Charlotte Bunch Preface by Meredeth Turshen Economic Policies and Migration Confronting Austerity: Women's Responses to Economic Reform by Victoria Daines and David Seddon Empowerment Strategies of Poor Urban Women Under the Chilean Dictatorship by Joseph L. Scarpaci Women's Work and the Urban Household Economy in Developing Countries by Briavel Holcomb and Tamar Y. Rothenberg The Impact of Population Control on Health Policy in Bangladesh by Betsy Hartmann Migration, Public Policy, and Women's Experience by Meredeth Turshen, Helene Bretin and Annie Thebaud-Mony Sex and Marriage, Violence and Control Violence Against Women: An Obstacle to Development by Roxanna Carrillo Industrial Prostitution and South Korean Dependent Development by Heisoo Shin Planning for Prostitution: An Analysis of Thailand's Sex Industry by Catherine Hill Dowry Murders in India: A Preliminary Examination of the Historical Evidence by Veena Talwar Oldenburg Paying the Price of Change: Women, Modernization, and Arranged Marriages in India by Uma Narayan Representations of Urban Life in African Women's Literature by Carole Boyce Davies Notes References Index
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