I'm forwarding this message to the list. It didn't make it directly here due to a subscription error. Stefanie Rixecker > Dear Elise, > > In reply to your request for information on women in Latin America or > women in international development, I can suggest the following articles > and books as a beginning. > > Moser, Caroline (1993) Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice > and Training (New York: Routledge) > > Young, Kate; Wolkowitz, Carol; and McCullagh, Roslyn (1981) Of Marriage > and the Market (London: CSE Books) > > Deere, Diane Carmen (1982) "The division of labour by sex in > agriculture: A Peruvian case study," Economic Development and Cultural > Change 30(4) > > Brydon, Lynne and Chant, Sylvia (eds) (1989) Women in the Third World > (Aldershot, Eng.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.) > > Moser, Caroline and Peake, Linda (eds.) (1987) Women, Human Settlements and > Housing (London: Tavistock) > > These are just a few examples of the vast literature. Moser's book > (Gender Planning ...) offers a very good general introduction to both the > women in development (WID) school and the more recent gender and > development (GAD) school. Moser and Peake's book contains many articles > on women and human settlements in Latin America. Young et al. is a > classic work. If you are interested in rural issues in Latin America, > you should read anything written by Deere. Don't be put off by the fact > that some of these references are old; in my view, few recent > publications have surpassed the insights in Deere's publications. > Sylvia Chant does work in Latin America, principally on urban issues, so > her book is a good reference as are other works by her. If you are > interested in issues of gender and development, you should write for a > catalog of books from Women, Ink. Women, Ink distributes publications > from a number of presses on gender/women and development. The address is: > > International Women's Tribune Center > Women, Ink > 777 United Nations Plaza > New York, NY 10017 USA > > Good luck with your work. I became interested in women and development > issues when I was in my second year of college, and then did my Ph.D. > research on gender and development in Senegal. Although my "expertise" > is in rural Africa, through my wider reading and my consulting work, I > have come in contact with literature from Latin America. I'd be happy to > chat with you about gender/women in development on e-mail. > > Best regards, Marcia Nation > >
