Cathy A Rakowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathy A Rakowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakowski |
| SIGNATURE | RAKOWSKI C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Engendering Wealth and Well-Being
Challenges and Opportunities for a Human Rights Frame in South Korea
Korean feminists are keenly aware that transnational feminists emphasize a human rights framework to eradicate violence against women. But in the 1990s, they based their anti-domestic violence campaign on a frame of "preservation of the family" because it was more culturally resonant at the time than a human rights frame. The results include passage of two legislative Acts, failure to implement as intended, and a continued search for a more effec…
Women's Work and Lives in Rural Greece
Women as Political Actors
Almost thirty years have passed since Elsa Chaney first wrote of Latin America's supermadres—the concept she coined to describe women elected to public office in Peru and Chile (Chaney 1973). Her book of the same title, published in 1979, was one of the first works on women and politics in the region. Based on 167 interviews with "first generation" women in the late 1960s, Chaney proposed the following thesis
Women's Coalitions as a Strategy at the Intersection of Economic and Political Change in Venezuela
Obstacles and Opportunities to Women's Empowerment under Neoliberal Reform
Although neoliberal economics purports to be “ gender neutral” and focused on “ individuals” and “ markets,” ample evidence exists that it is gender biased both in its outcomes and in its implicit assumptions about gender roles. However, in spite of the gender bias in reforms and — conversely — the attention given to gender issues in some compensatory social policies, the specie c nature of their impacts are variable. Their impacts may be negativ…
Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America
This volume's multi-disciplinary cast of authors uses a comparative framework to explore the implications of global transformations and national development policies for urban employment and social inequality in Latin America. It examines socioeconomic change in labour markets
Farmers' Changing Roles in Thieudeme, Senegal
This article focuses on the changing roles of the women farmers of Thieudeme, Senegal. Sociological concepts and methods are combined with women's perceptions to more fully understand the nature of role change from part-time subsistence farming of hardy staples to full-time farming and marketing of vegetables among three generations of women and to compare women's perceptions of change factors with those identified through research and policy ana…
Other books in review
Contrapunto
(1996). Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America. Economic Geography: Vol. 72, Theme Issue: The New Rural Geography, pp. 470-473
Evaluating a social impact assessment
No matter how well‐designed, social impact assessments (SIAs) of economic development projects may not be able to overcome political and financial factors that preclude immediate adoption of recommendations to improve social impacts. In some cases, differences in values and assumptions held by diverse SIA participants—especially from distinct cultures and professions—may lead them to evaluate and respond differently to the SIA experience. As a re…
Survival or empowerment
Planned Development and Women's Relative Power
This article argues that [(1)] the industrial complex and Ciudad Guayana have been characterized by a division of labor by sex and a planned structure of opportunities (access to social goods) that promoted female economic dependence and depressed the potential for womens relative power while [(2)] forestry and Chaguaramas are characterized by a division of labor by sex and a structure of (mostly unplanned) opportunities that are supportive of fe…
The Struggle for Housing in Rural Venezuela
Little is known about the struggle for housing in rural areas or whether rural housing standards and aspirations resemble those of urban areas. This article, based on field research in Venezuela, analyzes housing ideology as expressed in public policy and housing programs, and in interviews with and actions of rural leaders, employers, government officials, and citizens. Competing housing ideologies co-exist but one-the cement-block house-dominat…
Contrapunto
Convergence and divergence in the informal sector debate
The ugly scholar
Women in steel
Difficulties involved in taking health services to the people
Women in the Development Process
This bibliography is a compilation of books articles conference papers pamphlets and unpublished documents written between 1900-76 on women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. It combines articles written in both regions and classifies articles into those dealing with change in roles and status and development and those describing or analyzing roles and status in institutions. Feminist perspectives have been incorporated for Latin America. G…
Convergence and divergence in the informal sector debate
The ugly scholar
Engendering Wealth and Well-Being
Challenges and Opportunities for a Human Rights Frame in South Korea
Korean feminists are keenly aware that transnational feminists emphasize a human rights framework to eradicate violence against women. But in the 1990s, they based their anti-domestic violence campaign on a frame of "preservation of the family" because it was more culturally resonant at the time than a human rights frame. The results include passage of two legislative Acts, failure to implement as intended, and a continued search for a more effec…
Farmers' Changing Roles in Thieudeme, Senegal
This article focuses on the changing roles of the women farmers of Thieudeme, Senegal. Sociological concepts and methods are combined with women's perceptions to more fully understand the nature of role change from part-time subsistence farming of hardy staples to full-time farming and marketing of vegetables among three generations of women and to compare women's perceptions of change factors with those identified through research and policy ana…
Women's Coalitions as a Strategy at the Intersection of Economic and Political Change in Venezuela
Obstacles and Opportunities to Women's Empowerment under Neoliberal Reform
Although neoliberal economics purports to be “ gender neutral” and focused on “ individuals” and “ markets,” ample evidence exists that it is gender biased both in its outcomes and in its implicit assumptions about gender roles. However, in spite of the gender bias in reforms and — conversely — the attention given to gender issues in some compensatory social policies, the specie c nature of their impacts are variable. Their impacts may be negativ…
Evaluating a social impact assessment
No matter how well‐designed, social impact assessments (SIAs) of economic development projects may not be able to overcome political and financial factors that preclude immediate adoption of recommendations to improve social impacts. In some cases, differences in values and assumptions held by diverse SIA participants—especially from distinct cultures and professions—may lead them to evaluate and respond differently to the SIA experience. As a re…
Planned Development and Women's Relative Power
This article argues that [(1)] the industrial complex and Ciudad Guayana have been characterized by a division of labor by sex and a planned structure of opportunities (access to social goods) that promoted female economic dependence and depressed the potential for womens relative power while [(2)] forestry and Chaguaramas are characterized by a division of labor by sex and a structure of (mostly unplanned) opportunities that are supportive of fe…
The Struggle for Housing in Rural Venezuela
Little is known about the struggle for housing in rural areas or whether rural housing standards and aspirations resemble those of urban areas. This article, based on field research in Venezuela, analyzes housing ideology as expressed in public policy and housing programs, and in interviews with and actions of rural leaders, employers, government officials, and citizens. Competing housing ideologies co-exist but one-the cement-block house-dominat…
Difficulties involved in taking health services to the people
Women's Work and Lives in Rural Greece
Contrapunto
(1996). Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America. Economic Geography: Vol. 72, Theme Issue: The New Rural Geography, pp. 470-473
Women in steel
Women in the Development Process
This bibliography is a compilation of books articles conference papers pamphlets and unpublished documents written between 1900-76 on women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. It combines articles written in both regions and classifies articles into those dealing with change in roles and status and development and those describing or analyzing roles and status in institutions. Feminist perspectives have been incorporated for Latin America. G…
Difficulties involved in taking health services to the people
Women in steel
The ugly scholar
Contrapunto
Convergence and divergence in the informal sector debate
Evaluating a social impact assessment
No matter how well‐designed, social impact assessments (SIAs) of economic development projects may not be able to overcome political and financial factors that preclude immediate adoption of recommendations to improve social impacts. In some cases, differences in values and assumptions held by diverse SIA participants—especially from distinct cultures and professions—may lead them to evaluate and respond differently to the SIA experience. As a re…
Survival or empowerment
Planned Development and Women's Relative Power
This article argues that [(1)] the industrial complex and Ciudad Guayana have been characterized by a division of labor by sex and a planned structure of opportunities (access to social goods) that promoted female economic dependence and depressed the potential for womens relative power while [(2)] forestry and Chaguaramas are characterized by a division of labor by sex and a structure of (mostly unplanned) opportunities that are supportive of fe…
The Struggle for Housing in Rural Venezuela
Little is known about the struggle for housing in rural areas or whether rural housing standards and aspirations resemble those of urban areas. This article, based on field research in Venezuela, analyzes housing ideology as expressed in public policy and housing programs, and in interviews with and actions of rural leaders, employers, government officials, and citizens. Competing housing ideologies co-exist but one-the cement-block house-dominat…
Contrapunto
(1996). Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America. Economic Geography: Vol. 72, Theme Issue: The New Rural Geography, pp. 470-473
Other books in review
Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America
This volume's multi-disciplinary cast of authors uses a comparative framework to explore the implications of global transformations and national development policies for urban employment and social inequality in Latin America. It examines socioeconomic change in labour markets
Farmers' Changing Roles in Thieudeme, Senegal
This article focuses on the changing roles of the women farmers of Thieudeme, Senegal. Sociological concepts and methods are combined with women's perceptions to more fully understand the nature of role change from part-time subsistence farming of hardy staples to full-time farming and marketing of vegetables among three generations of women and to compare women's perceptions of change factors with those identified through research and policy ana…
Obstacles and Opportunities to Women's Empowerment under Neoliberal Reform
Although neoliberal economics purports to be “ gender neutral” and focused on “ individuals” and “ markets,” ample evidence exists that it is gender biased both in its outcomes and in its implicit assumptions about gender roles. However, in spite of the gender bias in reforms and — conversely — the attention given to gender issues in some compensatory social policies, the specie c nature of their impacts are variable. Their impacts may be negativ…
Women as Political Actors
Almost thirty years have passed since Elsa Chaney first wrote of Latin America's supermadres—the concept she coined to describe women elected to public office in Peru and Chile (Chaney 1973). Her book of the same title, published in 1979, was one of the first works on women and politics in the region. Based on 167 interviews with "first generation" women in the late 1960s, Chaney proposed the following thesis
Women's Coalitions as a Strategy at the Intersection of Economic and Political Change in Venezuela
Women's Work and Lives in Rural Greece
Challenges and Opportunities for a Human Rights Frame in South Korea
Korean feminists are keenly aware that transnational feminists emphasize a human rights framework to eradicate violence against women. But in the 1990s, they based their anti-domestic violence campaign on a frame of "preservation of the family" because it was more culturally resonant at the time than a human rights frame. The results include passage of two legislative Acts, failure to implement as intended, and a continued search for a more effec…
Engendering Wealth and Well-Being
Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Latin Americans (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)