Bina Fernandez introduces a novel feminist framework for policy analysis aimed at addressing the shortcomings in policies affecting poor women. She emphasizes that policy is a complex, contested process and proposes a four-category approach: Constitutive Contexts, Representations, Practices, and Consequences. This framework allows for a deeper understanding of how policies can fail to serve marginalized groups, highlighting the need for nuanced analysis in feminist policy discourse.
Focusing on Ethiopian women who migrate for domestic work in the Middle East, the book explores their aspirations shaped by gendered inequalities in Ethiopia. Through qualitative research in Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Kuwait, it examines how gender, race, class, and nationality intersect, influencing migrant identities and agency. The analysis highlights the effects of migration on social reproduction in both home and host countries, providing new empirical and theoretical perspectives on women's significant role in international migration from Africa.
This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of women’s access to land, labour and livelihoods in contemporary India. The authors recognize that gender relations must be viewed intersectionally, along with other social relationships such as caste, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and age, in order to inform an integrated analysis of women’s persistent disadvantage in India. The chapters examine a diverse range of rural and urban livelihoods within sectors such as tea plantations, nursing, hair salons, sex work and waste collection. Documenting the shifts in these sectors in the context of economic liberalization, the authors offer insights on the challenges of development interventions as women negotiate shifts in their livelihood options. Written to engage, the contributions to this book will be of interest both to the general reader and to academics and practitioners in development and gender/women’s studies.