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- catalog abstract ""This book explores the impact on Third World women of the stringent economic prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF. Introductory chapters explain in non-jargonistic terms exactly what structural adjustment is. These are followed by feminist critiques of its implications, and then a series of carefully chosen case studies examining the specific dimensions of structural adjustment in countries as diverse as Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Sri Lanka and the Philippines."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b4250662.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""This book explores the impact on Third World women of the stringent economic prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF. Introductory chapters explain in non-jargonistic terms exactly what structural adjustment is. These are followed by feminist critiques of its implications, and then a series of carefully chosen case studies examining the specific dimensions of structural adjustment in countries as diverse as Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Sri Lanka and the Philippines."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "What is structural adjustment? / Pamela Sparr -- Feminist critiques of structural adjustment / Pamela Sparr -- Privatization and the demise of state feminism in Egypt / Mervat F. Hatem -- Ghana: women in the public and informal sectors under the economic recovery programme / Takyiwaa Manuh -- What has export-oriented manufacturing meant for Turkish women? / Nilüfer Çagatay and Günseli Berik -- Structural adjustment policies, industrial development and women in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera -- The dynamics of economic change and gender roles: export cropping in the Philippines / Maria Sagrario Floro -- Nigeria: agricultural exports and compensatory schemes - rural women's production resources and quality of life / Patience Elabor-Idemudia -- Hitting where it hurts most: Jamaican women's livlihoods in crisis / Joan French -- Banking on women: where do we go from here? / Pamela Sparr.".
- catalog extent "x, 214 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Mortgaging women's lives.".
- catalog identifier "1856491013 (hb) :".
- catalog identifier "1856491021 (pb) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mortgaging women's lives.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books,".
- catalog relation "Mortgaging women's lives.".
- catalog spatial "Developing countries".
- catalog subject "331.4/09172/4 20".
- catalog subject "HD6223 .M67 1994".
- catalog subject "Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Developing countries Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Women Employment Developing countries Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "What is structural adjustment? / Pamela Sparr -- Feminist critiques of structural adjustment / Pamela Sparr -- Privatization and the demise of state feminism in Egypt / Mervat F. Hatem -- Ghana: women in the public and informal sectors under the economic recovery programme / Takyiwaa Manuh -- What has export-oriented manufacturing meant for Turkish women? / Nilüfer Çagatay and Günseli Berik -- Structural adjustment policies, industrial development and women in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera -- The dynamics of economic change and gender roles: export cropping in the Philippines / Maria Sagrario Floro -- Nigeria: agricultural exports and compensatory schemes - rural women's production resources and quality of life / Patience Elabor-Idemudia -- Hitting where it hurts most: Jamaican women's livlihoods in crisis / Joan French -- Banking on women: where do we go from here? / Pamela Sparr.".
- catalog title "Mortgaging women's lives : feminist critiques of structural adjustment / edited by Pamela Sparr.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".