The International Handbook of Women and Poverty
The International Handbook of Women and Poverty
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Description
Almost half of the global population lives on less than $2 USD per day, and the majority these people are women and children who lack access to adequate nutrition, clean water, shelter, sanitation, and basic healthcare.
The International Handbook of Women and Poverty: Global Essays and Social Justice Initiatives is an innovative, collaborative project by leading experts in poverty. Scholars from around the globe explore the dynamics of women and poverty in their respective countries and highlight local social justice initiatives. Topical coverage ranges from child marriage and teenage pregnancy to violence and war to climate change. The result is a handbook that explores how poverty and inequality vary by country, region, continent, and level of development. It is an essential reference work for anyone who seeks to understand the feminization of poverty.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Feminization of Poverty through International Perspectives by Sheila M. Katz, Laura Livesey, and Savanah M. Jio
Chapter 2. The Intersecting Structural Inequalities, Women's Poverty, and Social Justice Initiatives in Tanzania by Neema Langa
Chapter 3. Akwete Weaving as Indigenous Enterprise: Cultural and Economic Agency Among Igbo Women in Nigeria by Chinelo L. Njaka
Chapter 4. Poverty of older women in Slovenia: What's UBI got to do with it? by Vesna Leskošek and Ana Kralj
Chapter 5. The Gendered Faces of Poverty and Hidden Homelessness in Croatia by Lynette Šikic-Micanovic
Chapter 6. Energy, Gender, and Crisis: Unfolding Women's Vulnerabilities in North Macedonia by Ana Stojilovska
Chapter 7. Challenges In Search of Gendered Poverty: Soviet and Post-Soviet Armenia by Stella Grigorian
Chapter 8. When Home Vanishes: Fuel Poverty and Spatial Dispossession on the Aylesbury Estate, London, United Kingdom by Chinelo L. Njaka
Chapter 9. Life in a Crisis Zone: Poverty and Suffering Grow Among the Women of Gaza by Laura Livesey
Chapter 10. Intersecting Inequalities and the Promise of Systems Change in Uttar Pradesh, India by Ananya Tiwari, Payal Shah, Anupam Ahuja, Nidhi Kinhal, Disha Srivastava, Seema Marmath, & Shameema M. Yousuf
Chapter 11. Driving Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Basera's Driverben Initiative in India by Kirti Joshi
Chapter 12. From Brides To Breadwinners: The Gendered Costs of Child Marriage in Bima, Indonesia by Denty Piawai Nastitie
Chapter 13. From Cultural Pride to Inherited Burdens: Belis and Intergenerational Poverty in Eastern Indonesia by Alda Asikin & Maria Gracea
Chapter 14. Poverty and the Incidence of Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines by Gloria Luz M. Nelson
Chapter 15. Women Helping Women: Community-Based Organization of Human Trafficking Survivors in La Union, Philippines by Ma. Aurora Lolita Liwag-Lomibao and Violeda A. Umali
Chapter 16. Climate Change, Agriculture, and Women's Poverty in Viet Nam's Mekong Delta by Kristy Kelly
Chapter 17. Care Beyond Homes and Institutions: An Experience of Community Care in the Rocinha Favela of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil by Felícia Picanço
Chapter 18. “Las Mujeres No Necesitan Estudiar”: Gendered Educational Barriers and the Reproduction of Poverty in El Salvador by Mayra Rodriguez and María Josefina Guardado González
Chapter 19. Communicative and Social Justice Change Initiatives to Combat Women's Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico by Leandra H. Hernández and José Coreas
Chapter 20. The Vast Rural and Remote Areas of Canada's Provincial North: A Snapshot of Canadian Women's Experience of Poverty by Leslie Nichols
Chapter 21. Hawai?i – Poverty in Paradise by Teresa Bill and Kapilialoha Bovard
Chapter 22. Welfare and Education: An Autoethnographic Account of Social Mobility in the United States by Tracy Xavia Karner
Chapter 23. The Working Poor: Race, Gender, and Labor Inequality in the U.S. South by Gabrielle Grant
Chapter 24. Women's Poverty in the Northeastern United States by Luisa S. Deprez
Chapter 25. Trapped by Poverty: Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in the United States by Sheila M. Katz
Chapter 26. Conclusion: Fighting Poverty Local to Global by Sheila Katz and Laura Livesey
List of Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | Sep 17 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798765164075 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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