Women and Urban Settlement

Thumbnail
Name:
bk-women-urban-settlement-0101 ...
Size:
5.366Mb
Format:
PDF
Description:
English book
Download
Editor(s)
Sweetman, Caroline
Publication date
1996-01-01
Subject
Gender
Keywords
Health systems
Social protection
Refugees and IDPs
Urban
Country
Afghanistan
China
Ethiopia

Metadata
Show full item record
Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Series
Oxfam Focus on Gender
Document type
Book
Description

The rapid expansion of towns and cities throughout the world in recent years has created huge problems, as governments have been unable to provide adequate housing and services for the growing urban population. This book in the Focus on Gender series looks at various aspects of urban life from a gender perspective. Contributors include Jo Beall, Delia Davin, Carole Rakodi, and Seteney Shami, and articles cover issues such as gender-sensitive urban planning; work-migration; community urban regeneration schemes, both government and NGO; health care for poor urban women; and the dislocation and loss of home experienced by refugees.
Table of contents
Editorial; Participation in the city: where do women fit in?; Gender, domestic space, and urban upgrading: a case study from Amman; Gender and rural-urban migration in China; 'Dislocation', shelter, and crisis: Afghanistan's refugees and notions of home; 'Women with self-esteem are healthy women': community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil; Sustaining urban development through participation: an Ethiopian case study; Interview: Chris Peters talks to Catalina Trujillo about her work for the UN Agency Habitat; Women in the city of man: recent contributions to the gender and human settlements debate; Resources; Organisations working in urban development; Further reading
Pages
67
ISBN
978-0-85598-348-2
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121128
Additional Links
https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/women-and-urban-settlement-121128
Collections