Struggling with Development: The Politics of Hunger and Gender in the Philippines

by Lynn M. Kwiatkowski

Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising of women's social position, has instead perpetuated the problems of hunger and gender inequality in societies.This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081333408X
• ISBN13: 9780813334080
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"