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Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling

Author

Debarati Sen

Description

Based on fieldwork among Nepali women who work in organic tea production in India.

Year

2017

Poverty in the United States: Women's Voices

Editor

Ann O'Leary and Paula M. Frew

Description

Focuses on the connections between poverty, its related social conditions, and health.

Year

2017

Women's Entrepreneurship in Iran: Role Models of Growth-Oriented Iranian Women Entrepreneurs

Author

Leyla Sarfaraz

Description

Focuses primarily on 2008–13 and offers comparisons to the economic environment in Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

Year

2017

Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles

Author

Susanna Rosenbaum

Description

Based on fieldwork among Central American and Mexican domestic workers and their mainly white, middle-class women employers.

Year

2017

The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development

Author

Kathryn Moeller

Description

Focuses on Nike's nonprofit organization the Girl Effect in the global south and draws on fieldwork at the Clinton Global Initiative and at a nongovernmental organization funded by Nike in Brazil.

Year

2018

Igbo Women in the Diaspora and Community Development in Southeastern Nigeria: Gender, Migration, and Development in Africa

Author

Sussie U. Aham-Okoro

Description

Focuses on Igbo women in the United States who work on community development in Nigeria.

Year

2017

The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, and Garments Made in India

Author

Alessandra Mezzadri

Description

Examines India's garment industry in the neoliberal global commodity chain through feminist and Marxist lenses.

Year

2017

Gender, Poverty, and Livelihood in the Eastern Himalayas

Editor

Sanjoy Hazarika and Reshmi Banerjee

Description

Covers primarily India and Myanmar.

Year

2018

Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa: Longitudinal Perspectives from Six Countries

Editor

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika

Description

Covers Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia and uses the Afrint data set of small landholders from 2002 to 2013.

Year

2018

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Fragile States: The Case of Timor-Leste

Author

Monica Costa

Description

Examines the effects of the adoption of gender-responsive budgeting in 2008.

Year

2018