Sylvia Chant
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 226545 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sylvia Chant |
| NOMBRES | Sylvia |
| APELLIDO | Chant |
| FIRMA | CHANT S |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 818 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Geography and gender, hindsight and foresight
Inspired by, and drawing from, Jacqueline Tivers’ early and foundational paper in Area (1978) on the need for dedicated geographical research on women, in this brief paper I offer selected reflections on the progressive “engendering” of geography from the late 1970s to the present from the perspective of a feminist geographer with enduring interests in gender and development (GAD) in the Global South. I concentrate, first, on “hindsight,” tracing…
Feminization of Poverty
The “feminization of poverty” has been a longstanding, if deeply contested, trope in gender and development (GAD) discourse since the mid‐1990s. This entry traces the origins of the term and provides a critical review of some of the key debates which have occurred around its theoretical assumptions and empirical bases. Particular attention is paid to methodological and data difficulties in substantiating trends in the “feminization of poverty,” t…
Challenges and Changes in Gendered Poverty
Despite reductions in poverty generally, recent trends in Latin American countries show processes of both de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty. A rise in the numbers of women to men living in income-poor households has occurred despite feminized anti-poverty programs, most notably conditional cash transfers (CCTs), which target resources to women. This paper shows that methodological differences in what, how, and who is the focus of mea…
Gender and poverty
Drawing on historical debates on gender, poverty, and the ‘feminisation of poverty’, this paper reflects on current evidence, methods and analysis of gendered poverty. It focuses on initiatives by UN Women, including the Progress of the World’s Women 2015–16. Our analysis of the data compiled by UN Women raises questions about what might account for the over-representation of women among the poor in official accounts of poverty, and how this is p…
Historical Dictionary of The Gambia
Galvanizing girls for development? Critiquing the shift from ‘smart’ to ‘smarter economics’
This article traces the mounting interest in, and visibility of, girls and young women in development (WID) policy, especially since the turn of the twenty-first century when a ‘Smart Economics’ rationale for promoting gender equality and female empowerment has become ever more prominent and explicit. ‘Smart Economics’, which is strongly associated with an increased influence of corporate stakeholders, frequently through public–private partnershi…
Women, girls and world poverty
This paper asks if mounting reliance on women and girls to solve world poverty is an effective means to achieve greater female empowerment and gender equality, or whether, instead, it threatens to lockdown essentialising stereotypes which are unlikely to dismantle gender disparities within and beyond the home. The notion of a 'feminisation of poverty' has been widely popularised over the past twenty years, and has had some benefits in respect of …
Gendered Commodity Chains
Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa
Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa presents an informative and illuminating case study of female traders in the informal economy in the Taveta Road area of Nairobi’s Central Business Di
Exploring the “feminisation of poverty” in relation to women’s work and home-based enterprise in slums of the Global South
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore links between a revisionist view of the “feminisation of poverty” in developing countries and women’s work and home-based enterprise in urban slums. Design/methodology/approach – The paper’s discussion of the “feminisation of poverty” draws substantially from ethnographic field research conducted in The Gambia, The Philippines and Costa Rica. This research led the author to propose the notion of a…
Cities through a “gender lens”
Although urban women generally enjoy some advantages over their rural counterparts, a range of gender inequalities and injustices persist in urban areas that constrain their engagement in the labour market and in informal enterprises and inhibit the development of capabilities among younger women. These include unequal access to decent work, human capital acquisition, financial and physical assets, intra-urban mobility, personal safety and securi…
The disappearing of ‘smart economics’? The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality
This article draws on personal involvement in the World Bank’s consultation with academic ‘stakeholders’ for the World Development Report 2012 (WDR 2012) on Gender Equality and Development. The article questions the extent to which ‘smart economics’, which was the zeitgeist of the Bank’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2007–2010, shows signs of being replaced by a more ‘gender-sensitive’ approach in which women’s rights (rather than responsibilities) ar…
Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development
This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the feminist goal of removing the structural discrimination which women face as a gendered constituency, and consider the im…
International Handbook of Gender and Poverty
The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty
In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage. This benchmark volume presents women’s and men’s experiences of gendered poverty with respect to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues including local…
Gendered Poverty Across Space and Time
In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage. This benchmark volume presents women’s and men’s experiences of gendered poverty with respect to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues including local…
South East Asia
The unbearable heaviness of being’
Reviewing existing scholarship and drawing on our own experience of microlevel qualitative research on gender in countries in three regions of the Global South (Cambodia, the Philippines, Costa Rica and The Gambia), this article examines patterns of women’s altruistic behaviour within poor family-based households. As a quality and practice labeled as ‘feminine’, the article illuminates the motives, dimensions and dynamics that characterise this a…
Looking for the one(s)
This paper explores the strategic use of sexual relationships in bolstering the economic well-being of young low-income women and men in The Gambia, West Africa. While other studies of sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond have demonstrated the importance of intimate (and often cross-generational) relationships for young women as a means of accessing resources, less is known in this regard about their male counterparts. This study points to …
General
The 'Feminisation of Poverty' in Costa Rica
Quantitative data from Costa Rica suggest that poverty is 'feminising', especially in respect of female-headed households, who, since the early 1990s, have constituted a progressively greater share of the population classified as poor. This presents something of a conundrum given significant attempts on the part of the state to promote gender equality and to direct public expenditure to low-income women. Some light on this apparent paradox is she…
I Won't Stay Indian, I'll Keep Studying
The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ and the ‘Feminisation’ of Anti-Poverty Programmes
The construct of the ‘feminisation of poverty’ has helped to give gender an increasingly prominent place within international discourses on poverty and poverty reduction. Yet the way in which gender has been incorporated pragmatically – predominantly through the ‘feminisation’ of anti-poverty programmes – has rarely relieved women of the onus of coping with poverty in their households, and has sometimes exacerbated their burdens. In order to expl…
Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction
Gender, Generation and Poverty
In Gender, Generation and Poverty Sylvia Chant challenges the 'feminisation of poverty' on the basis of recent fieldwork in The Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. Interviews with over 220 women and men of different ages at the grassroots, as well as with 40 professionals in international agencies, government departments and NGOs, highlight the difficulties of establishing any general tendency towards a widening of gender disparities in income po…
Gender and Migration in Developing Countries
Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development
This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the feminist goal of removing the structural discrimination which women face as a gendered constituency, and consider the im…
Women, girls and world poverty
This paper asks if mounting reliance on women and girls to solve world poverty is an effective means to achieve greater female empowerment and gender equality, or whether, instead, it threatens to lockdown essentialising stereotypes which are unlikely to dismantle gender disparities within and beyond the home. The notion of a 'feminisation of poverty' has been widely popularised over the past twenty years, and has had some benefits in respect of …
Cities through a “gender lens”
Although urban women generally enjoy some advantages over their rural counterparts, a range of gender inequalities and injustices persist in urban areas that constrain their engagement in the labour market and in informal enterprises and inhibit the development of capabilities among younger women. These include unequal access to decent work, human capital acquisition, financial and physical assets, intra-urban mobility, personal safety and securi…
Households, gender and rural-urban migration
The aim of this paper is to argue the importance of considering ¿the household' in analyses of gender and rural-urban migration, both in respect of how it shapes the gender selectivity of migrant flows and how, in turn, the latter contributes to household diversity across rural and urban areas.... [It] examines the impacts of gender differentiated demographic mobility on contemporary household forms in rural and urban areas including reference to…
Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction
Women in the Third World
Men in Crisis? Reflections on Masculinities, Work and Family in North-West Costa Rica
Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa
In this paper we report on preliminary fieldwork conducted in Ghana and The Gambia on the interrelationships among youth, gender and livelihoods. We examine how policy in developing countries, typically characterised as related to child labour or education, needs to emphasise the linkage across processes that affect young people. We argue that policy will be improved if young people are given voice to express how work, education, social networks,…
The unbearable heaviness of being’
Reviewing existing scholarship and drawing on our own experience of microlevel qualitative research on gender in countries in three regions of the Global South (Cambodia, the Philippines, Costa Rica and The Gambia), this article examines patterns of women’s altruistic behaviour within poor family-based households. As a quality and practice labeled as ‘feminine’, the article illuminates the motives, dimensions and dynamics that characterise this a…
Exploring the “feminisation of poverty” in relation to women’s work and home-based enterprise in slums of the Global South
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore links between a revisionist view of the “feminisation of poverty” in developing countries and women’s work and home-based enterprise in urban slums. Design/methodology/approach – The paper’s discussion of the “feminisation of poverty” draws substantially from ethnographic field research conducted in The Gambia, The Philippines and Costa Rica. This research led the author to propose the notion of a…
Women-Headed Households
Women-headed households are commonly regarded as the ‘poorest of the poor’. Not only do they seem to be disproportionately concentrated among low-income groups, but female headship itself is seen to exacerbate poverty. Yet a growing body of research on developing societies suggests that although poverty may precipitate the formation of female?headed households, and that some aspects of female headship can give rise to economic disadvantage, membe…
Gender and poverty
Drawing on historical debates on gender, poverty, and the ‘feminisation of poverty’, this paper reflects on current evidence, methods and analysis of gendered poverty. It focuses on initiatives by UN Women, including the Progress of the World’s Women 2015–16. Our analysis of the data compiled by UN Women raises questions about what might account for the over-representation of women among the poor in official accounts of poverty, and how this is p…
Women, Work and Household Survival Strategies in Mexico, 1982-1992
Sylvia Chant, Women, Work and Household Survival Strategies in Mexico, 1982-1992: Past Trends, Current Tendencies and Future Research, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 203-233
Women's roles in recession and economic restructuring in Mexico and the Philippines
Men-streaming’ gender? Questions for gender and development policy in the twenty-first century
Insofar as gender is still so often equated with women alone, the move from Women in Development to Gender in Development has changed very little. Men as a human category have always been present, involved, consulted, obeyed and disobeyed in development work. Yet men as a gendered category in a feminist sense - involving unequal power relations between men and women and between men - have rarely been drawn into development programmes in any subst…
Gendered Commodity Chains
The disappearing of ‘smart economics’? The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality
This article draws on personal involvement in the World Bank’s consultation with academic ‘stakeholders’ for the World Development Report 2012 (WDR 2012) on Gender Equality and Development. The article questions the extent to which ‘smart economics’, which was the zeitgeist of the Bank’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2007–2010, shows signs of being replaced by a more ‘gender-sensitive’ approach in which women’s rights (rather than responsibilities) ar…
Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica
Single-Parent Families
The 'Feminisation of Poverty' in Costa Rica
Quantitative data from Costa Rica suggest that poverty is 'feminising', especially in respect of female-headed households, who, since the early 1990s, have constituted a progressively greater share of the population classified as poor. This presents something of a conundrum given significant attempts on the part of the state to promote gender equality and to direct public expenditure to low-income women. Some light on this apparent paradox is she…
Challenges and Changes in Gendered Poverty
Despite reductions in poverty generally, recent trends in Latin American countries show processes of both de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty. A rise in the numbers of women to men living in income-poor households has occurred despite feminized anti-poverty programs, most notably conditional cash transfers (CCTs), which target resources to women. This paper shows that methodological differences in what, how, and who is the focus of mea…
Women and Survival in Mexican Cities
Galvanizing girls for development? Critiquing the shift from ‘smart’ to ‘smarter economics’
This article traces the mounting interest in, and visibility of, girls and young women in development (WID) policy, especially since the turn of the twenty-first century when a ‘Smart Economics’ rationale for promoting gender equality and female empowerment has become ever more prominent and explicit. ‘Smart Economics’, which is strongly associated with an increased influence of corporate stakeholders, frequently through public–private partnershi…
Gender and Export Manufacturing in the Philippines
(1995). Gender and Export Manufacturing in the Philippines: Continuity or change in female employment? The case of the Mactan Export Processing Zone. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 147-176
Single-Parent Families
Family Formation and Female Roles in Querétaro, Mexico
The Urbanization of the Third World
Women in the Third World
Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica
Women and Survival in Mexican Cities
Gender and Migration in Developing Countries
Household and Class Relations
Third World Housing in Social and Spatial Development
It is not until the third appearance of the title of this book that one finds the sub-title 'The Case of Jakarta'. An immediate reaction is that the main title is almost deliberately misleading an attempt to present the book as a general text rather than the specialized monograph it is likely to be. However, to a large degree, the quantity and quality of Marcussen's discussion about housing in general redeems omission of the sub-title on the cove…
Full Circles
Shelter, women and development
Gender and Migration in Developing Countries
Women, Work and Household Survival Strategies in Mexico, 1982-1992
Sylvia Chant, Women, Work and Household Survival Strategies in Mexico, 1982-1992: Past Trends, Current Tendencies and Future Research, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 203-233
Gender and Export Manufacturing in the Philippines
(1995). Gender and Export Manufacturing in the Philippines: Continuity or change in female employment? The case of the Mactan Export Processing Zone. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 147-176
Gender, Women, and Health in the Americas
Women's roles in recession and economic restructuring in Mexico and the Philippines
Women-Headed Households
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 debate
Género, urbanización y pobreza
El artículo pone de relieve la importancia de considerar en las intervenciones que busquen alcanzar el desarrollo sustentable las dimensiones de género, urbanización y pobreza y la necesidad de abordarlas desde la perspectiva de los hogares o unidades domésticas, especialmente de aquéllos dirigidos por mujeres.Al reflexionar acerca del concepto de hogar y al abordar la selectividad por género de la migración rural-urbana, fenómeno que ha influido…
Marginal (M)Others
Women-Headed Households
Women-headed households are commonly regarded as the ‘poorest of the poor’. Not only do they seem to be disproportionately concentrated among low-income groups, but female headship itself is seen to exacerbate poverty. Yet a growing body of research on developing societies suggests that although poverty may precipitate the formation of female?headed households, and that some aspects of female headship can give rise to economic disadvantage, membe…
Households, gender and rural-urban migration
The aim of this paper is to argue the importance of considering ¿the household' in analyses of gender and rural-urban migration, both in respect of how it shapes the gender selectivity of migrant flows and how, in turn, the latter contributes to household diversity across rural and urban areas.... [It] examines the impacts of gender differentiated demographic mobility on contemporary household forms in rural and urban areas including reference to…
Households, gender and rural-urban migration
This paper highlights the interrelatedness of gender and household organization in a central aspect of developmental change: rural-urban migration. It demonstrates the significance of intra-household dynamics for understanding the gender selectivity of population movement and shows in turn how this contributes to household diversity among low-income groups in both rural and urban areas. It also shows that although most women have little choice in…
Women-Headed Household. Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World
Filipino Peasant Women
Geography and Development
Political science (43 obras) · Economics (39 obras) · Sociology (39 obras) · Economic growth (32 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (28 obras) · Geography (27 obras) · Gender Studies (22 obras) · Development economics (18 obras) · Poverty (17 obras) · Demographic economics (15 obras)