Women-Headed Households

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Why Women-Headed Households?

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   Pages 1-29

3. Conceptual Context and Core Debates

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   Pages 30-68

4. Women-Headed Households in Global Perspective

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   Pages 69-88

5. Women-Headed Households and Development

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   Pages 89-113

6. Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines: National Perspectives

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   Pages 114-152

7. Female Headship and the Urban Poor: Case Study Perspectives

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   Pages 153-193

8. Victims or Survivors?

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   Pages 194-225

9. Growing Up in Women Headed Households

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   Pages 226-255

10. Whither Women-Headed Households? Directions for Theory, Research and Policy

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    Pages 256-282

11. Back Matter

    Pages 283-338

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Households headed by women are a growing presence worldwide. This is the first book to focus on their diversity and dynamics in developing countries. Set within the context of global trends and debates on female household headship, and using case-study material based on interviews with low-income women in Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines, the analysis explores the reasons for the formation and increase in women-headed households in different parts of the world, and their capacity for survival in societies where male-headed households are both the norm and ideal.

• dynamics
• income
• interview
• women

• London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK

  Sylvia Chant

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