Poverty and Survival: Kudumbi Female Domestic Servants and Their Households in Allepey (Kerala)

Loes Schenk-Sandbergen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Section South – and Southeast-Asia of the University of Amsterdam, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Social Science in 1975. She has published extensively on gender issues, linking them with poverty and the process of empowerment. Besides, she is a consultant, in particular in gender (women) and empowerment. She did substantial anthropological research, and impact- and evaluation studies in India, Laos, Vietnam, China, Philippines and Bangladesh. Besides writing numerous articles, manuals and project reports she is the author of several books.