Download or read book Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia written by Susanne Thorbek and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of slum culture and gender relations compares two slums in Asia - Ratmalana, Colombo and Khlong Toey, Bangkok - and shows how the impact of urbanization, economic change and national politics in Sri Lanka and Thailand differ significantly, despite their common cultural background.
Download or read book Slum Culture and Gender written by Susanne Thorbek and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender and Slum Culture in Asia written by Anil Kumar Srivastava and published by MD Pub Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities Slums and Gender in the Global South written by Sylvia Chant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South. This is one of the first books to detail the challenges facing poorer segments of the female population who commonly reside in ‘slums’. It explores the variegated disadvantages of urban poverty and slum-dwelling from a gender perspective. This book revolves around conceptualisation of the ‘gender-urban-slum interface’ which explains key elements to understanding women’s experiences in slum environments. It has a specific focus on the ways in which gender inequalities are can be entrenched but also alleviated. Included is a review of the demographic factors which are increasingly making cities everywhere ‘feminised spaces’, such as increased rural-urban migration among women, demographic ageing, and rising proportions of female-headed households in urban areas. Discussions focus in particular on education, paid and unpaid work, access to land, property and urban services, violence, intra-urban mobility, and political participation and representation. This book will be of use to researchers and professionals concerned with gender and development, urbanisation and rural-urban migration.
Download or read book Slum Culture and Gender written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Body Parts on Planet Slum written by Lisa Beljuli Brown and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a year’s research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering that links their lives to the soap operas, revealing disturbing valuations of the female body that traverse reality and fiction. Through its exploration of this daily integration of real suffering and fictional glamour and wealth, ‘Body Parts on Planet Slum’ reveals how fantasy and social exclusion can together induce a form of psychological survivalism, enabling these women to reconfigure the central features of their existence – their suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Download or read book Urbanization Slum Culture Gender Struggle and Womens Identity written by Susanne Thorbek and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No One Will Let Her Live written by Claire Snell-Rood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi’s urban slums have left the health of women living there chronically vulnerable. Yet for women living in slums, there is no other option than to depend on someone. Based on fourteen months of intensive fieldwork with ten families in a Delhi slum, No One Will Let Her Live argues that women rely on moral strategies to confront the poverty and unstable relationships that threaten their well-being. Claire Snell-Rood breaks new ground by delineating the complex ways in which women set boundaries, maintain their independence, and develop a nuanced sense of selfhood that draws on endurance, asceticism, mobility, and citizenship.
Download or read book Women in Slums written by P. V. L. Ramana and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A Comprehensive Study On The Status Of Slum Women In The City Of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Specifically, It Focuses On The Ways In Which Slum Women Lead Their Lives, The Problems They Encounter And The Mechanisms They Adopt To Face The Situations. Unlike Many Slum Studies Which Emphasize The Economy Of Slum Life And Physical Amenities Available To Them, This Study Focuses On Gender Issues, Analyzing The Nature Of Gender Gap, Gender Discrimination And Gender Oppression In A Slum Situation. It Also Deals With The Growing-Gap, Gender Discrimination And Gender Oppression In A Slum Situation. It Also Deals With The Growing-Up Process Of Females In Slums. The Nature Of Human Rights Violations In Slum Is Such That Women Suffer Silently And Resign To Their Fate. This Book Emphasizes The Need To Strengthen Various Developmental Programmes To Enhance The Status Of Slum Women.
Download or read book Urban Slums and Dimensions of Poverty written by Harish Chandra Upreti and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality Among Human Beings Has Been A Universal Phenomenon. In Modern Times, The Rapid Growth Of Urbanisation And Industrialisation Has Further Widened The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor. Poverty Has Forced Poor People To Make Their Abode In Slums And Squatter Settlements. Slums Have Become Part And Parcel Of The Urban World. This Study Makes A Diagnostic Analysis Of The Plight Of The Urban Poor And Dimensions Of Poverty In Slums And Squatter Settlements. The Study Highlights Settlement Patterns, Ecological Setting And Environmental Hazards In Slums. It Gives A Vivid Account Of Female-Headed Households And Position Of Women And Children. The Study Also Focuses On Different Dimensions Of Poverty, Especially Giving An Interesting Account Of The Culture Of Poverty And Gender Discrimination. Scholars Interested In Studying Different Aspects Of Urban Life Will Find This Book Informative And Useful.
Download or read book Poverty Policy and Politics in Madras Slums written by Joop W de Wit and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the premise that an integral understanding of all dimensions of urban poverty is essential for the formulation of meaningful urban policies, this book - based on a case study of a slum in Madras - provides a critical but balanced account of the process and impact of urban policy and planning. The author paints a vivid portrait of the urban poor covering: the culture, praxis and survival problems of slum dwellers; their difficulties in accessing schools and hospitals; the differential impact of slum policies on men and women; and their coping strategies.
Download or read book Slum Health written by Jason Corburn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.
Download or read book No One Will Let Her Live written by Claire Snell-Rood and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi’s urban slums have left the health of women living there chronically vulnerable. Yet for women living in slums, there is no other option than to depend on someone. Based on fourteen months of intensive fieldwork with ten families in a Delhi slum, No One Will Let Her Live argues that women rely on moral strategies to confront the poverty and unstable relationships that threaten their well-being. Claire Snell-Rood breaks new ground by delineating the complex ways in which women set boundaries, maintain their independence, and develop a nuanced sense of selfhood that draws on endurance, asceticism, mobility, and citizenship.
Download or read book Housing Class and Gender in Modern British Writing 1880 2012 written by Emily Cuming and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as a framing device for the representation of individuals and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collection of well known, and less familiar, works by writers including Charles Booth, Octavia Hill, James Joyce, Pat O'Mara, Rose Macaulay, Patrick Hamilton, Sam Selvon, Sarah Waters, Lynsey Hanley and Andrea Levy, the author reflects upon and challenges various myths and truisms of 'home' through an analysis of four distinct British settings: slums, boarding houses, working-class childhood homes and housing estates. Her exploration of works of social investigation, fiction and life writing leads to an intricate stock of housing tales that are inherited, shifting and always revealing about the culture of our times. This book seeks to demonstrate how depictions of domestic space - in literature, history and other cultural forms - tell powerful and unexpected stories of class, gender, social belonging and exclusion.
Download or read book Women Headed Households written by S. Chant and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Households headed by women are a growing presence worldwide. This is the first book to focus on their diversity and dynamics in developing countries. Set within the context of global trends and debates on female household headship, and using case-study material based on interviews with low-income women in Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines, the analysis explores the reasons for the formation and increase in women-headed households in different parts of the world, and their capacity for survival in societies where male-headed households are both the norm and ideal.
Download or read book Slum Travelers written by Ellen Ross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late-nineteenth-century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their considerable resources to investigating and relieving poverty. By the 1890s at least half a million women were involved in philanthropy, particularly in London. Slum Travelers, edited, annotated, and with a superb introduction by Ellen Ross, collects a fascinating array of the writings of these "lady explorers," who were active in the east, south, and central London slums from around 1870 until the end of World War I. Contributors range from the well known, including Annie Besant, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Beatrice Webb (then Potter), to the obscure. The collection reclaims an important group of writers whose representations of urban poverty have been eclipsed by better-known male authors such as Charles Dickens and Jack London.
Download or read book Sociology on Culture written by John R. Hall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps major classical and contemporary analyses and controversies about culture in relation to social processes, everyday life, and axes of ordering and difference such as race, class and gender.
