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The links between gender, population and development are complex and specific to historical and socio-cultural contexts. This volume seeks to probe deeper into these not easily recognizable connections between gender and development. It explores and illustrates, through theoretical reviews and empirical accounts, the powerful mediatory effect of gender relations in modifying or reinforcing gender biases. The papers in this volume have a specific thrust, linking ...
This book supplements the already rich literature on gender by attempting to put in place a consistent framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’. It seeks to put in place a new agenda of gender research by expanding the existing set of gender indicators to include gender-related stress, anxiety ...