Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives

By Caren Grown and Gita Sen

Book Overview

This book synthesizes and analyzes three decades of economic, political, and cultural policies and politics toward third world women. Focusing on the impact of the current global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, and fundamentalism - the authors show how, through organization, poor women have begun to mobilize creative and effective development strategies to pull themselves and their families out of immiserating circumstances.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853457174
• ISBN13: 9780853457176
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.2"