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Street Foods
This study spans 15 years of research in several developing countries on the street food industry. The author discusses Public Policy issues of nutritional standards, sanitation, and regulation that affect this business.
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors draw from their experiences and research in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to illuminate the connections between women’s well-being and globalization, environmental conservation, land rights, access to information technology, employment, and poverty alleviation. Highlighting key institutional issues, contributors analyze the two approaches that dominate the field: women in development (WID) a...
Crossing Centuries
Irene Tinker's vivid memoire recaptures a pivotal moment, circa 1953, when East Africa was on the road to independence. It dramatizes both how far new nations have come since then and how burdened they remain by ghosts of the past. Her book contains useful history, rigorous political science, and fascinating ethnography, all enhanced by the added dimension of a woman's perspective. But, above all, this is a good story, in the tradition of great African travelogues from James Conrad and Graham Greene to Paul Theroux. Crossing Centuries will warm the hearts of old Africa hands and seize the imagination of readers new to what used to be called the Dark Continent. Alan McKee, US Ambassador to Sw...
Developing Power
Founders of the global women's movement share personal accounts about the trials and challenges of their work.
Homeworkers in Global Perspective
Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize. Moving away from well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known but equally compelling examples organize, and covers the major geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of home-based work and homeworker organizing.
Persistent Inequalities
Synthesizing the vast amount of research done in the last two decades on the roles of women in economic development, this anthology provides both a historical and political overview of the field and a careful examination of major areas of current research. The volume brings together essays by women and men from an international field of scholars representing a wide spectrum of disciplines, including women's studies, economics, sociology, political science, and anthropology. The eminent contributors include Ester Boserup, whose work established the theoretical foundation for the study of women's roles in economic development; she offers a succinct account of her theories as an introduction to...
Visioning an Equitable World: Reflections on Women, Democracy, Education, and Economic Development
This collection ... reveals the astounding breadth of her interests, her capacity for innovative thinking, and the depth of her commitment to equity for women worldwide. Jane S. Jaquette, Professor Emerita, Occidental College Irene Tinker has been a trailblazer and a voice for positive change for women for six decades. Her research and activism has left lasting footprints on gender equality and women's empowerment in the international development field. Neal Keny-Guyer, President/CEO, Mercy Corps The material in these collected papers remains as fresh and relevant as ever... Those who read this volume will be carried forward through a life and career of superb scholarship and impassioned eng...
International Development
A central premise is that an objective and universally‐accepted measure of “success” in development and paths to it does not exist.
My Professional Life and Publications, 1929-1998
"Ester Boserup's writings have had major impact over the last quarter century on the evolution of thought in anthropology, demography, economics, and sociology about the interrelationships among economic, demographic, and technical change." In the present booklet, the author reviews seventy years of work and writing on development economics and its relation to her own experience, from government planner in Denmark during the Second World War, via the UN, to consultant concerning today's problems of the Third World.
