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Author:

Boesten, Jelke.

Title:

Intersecting inequalities : women and social policy in Peru, 1990-2000 / Jelke Boesten.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xviii, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Poor women--Government policy--Peru.
Poor women--Services for--Peru.
Poor women--Peru--Social conditions.
Equality--Peru.
Peru--Social policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-170) and index.

Contents:

Intersecting inequalities -- The Peruvian state and (poor) women -- Food aid, motherhood, and women's work -- Population policies, poverty, and women's bodies -- Violence, democracy, and resistance -- Revisiting women.

Summary:

"Examines how food aid, population policies and policy against domestic violence reflected and reproduced existing inequalities based on race, class and gender in 1990s Peru"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780271036717
0271036710
0271036702 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271036700 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)463307701

LCCN:

2009046441

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)