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

by Gita Sen, Caren Grown

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.

Genres: Gender, Nonfiction, Economics

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Erica]

A revolutionary body of work ahead of its time. Still relevant till this day. Highly recommend reading it if you’re interested in collectivist economic development and post-colonialist economic reforms in developing countries.

[nadia]

groundbreaking for its time, still relevant today

[Amy]

a good introduction to how world economics and politics affect poor women in developing countries. it's based on research conducted in the 80s but given the current economic climate, i expect many of the issues raised are at least as relevant today.

[Sunshine]

Very important book.