Women, Livelihoods and Socio-Economic Growth : Emerging Development Alternatives
Contents: 1. Escape from poverty and social exclusion : the role of the regionally based social economy partnerships in building assets/George Tsobanoglou. 2. Female ethnic entrepreneurship in Spain: the creation of a model for the analysis of entrepreneurship strategies/Maria Villares Varela. 3. Working off the books: women and the informal economy in new Orleans/Marina Karides. 4. Critical issues in the economy development of rural women/Kiran Prasad. 5. Globalization, employment and the empowerment of women in Turkey/Ayse Gunduz-Hosgor and Jeroen Smits. 6. Looking through the telescope from the wrong end: a case study of local feminist resistance to globalization/Sarah Maddison. 7. Neighbourhoods: economic production and well being/Jaqui Goldin. 8. Social capital, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in rural Latin America, policy implications/Luis Llambi and Magda Duarte. 9. The global marketing of body image disturbance: mass media as a mediating structure between global capital and women\'s bodies/Patricia Leavy. 10. Securing women\'s rights without undermining their livelihoods--building a more socially-informed understanding of citizenship/Sam Wong. 11. Rural development and the role of cooperatives with an emphasis on women\'s cooperatives/George Tsobanoglou. 12. Aspects of gender relations in Greek industry/George O. Tsobanoglou and Paraskevi E. Batra. 13. Society of knowledge-freedom in women\'s education: a case study of India/Dhanapal Janaki.
"The book is a contribution to the ever-growing field of sociology of women working across countries with different socio-political, cultural settings. A number of these studies were presented during meetings of the research committee 26 (sociotechnics and sociological practice) of the International Sociological Association in South Africa and Europe during the past few years.
All in all, these studies enhance the fascinating field of sociology of women, hoping to contribute to the current international and national debates." (jacket)
