Book notes
Engaging our readers in preparing book notes
Our Book Notes section has short descriptions of books, papers and reports that we have prepared on all subjects relevant to urban issues. These are summaries rather than reviews. These go into the Book Notes online database that contains all Book Notes since our 1993 editions. It has facilities for searching by author, title, key word, city or country.
As an experiment, we are opening this to our readers so it can draw on a wider pool of knowledge. So we invite you to send us short summaries of new publications you have read that you found interesting – and relevant to urban issues. Authors may submit summaries too, but not promotional material. We welcome your submission on relevant publications published within the last two years. This includes English-language Book Notes and English summaries of publications in Spanish, French or Portuguese. You will be listed as the author of the summary.
If you would like to submit a Book Note, please search the database on this page to ensure that the publication has not already been covered. Please specify the title, author, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN (if applicable). For the description, between one and six paragraphs is sufficient. Book Notes can be sent to Jenny.Peebles@iied.org
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IN MOST PARTS of the world, lone mothers attract considerably more attention than their relatively small numbers might warrant.
THE PAPERS IN this collection are linked by a common concern for methods of male control and the attempts by women to evade or resist them.
WOMEN OF A Lesser Cost looks at women’s labour force participation in three areas in the Philippine Visayas - Cebu, Boracay Island and Lapu-Lapu.
The “feminization of poverty” has become a widely accepted concept since the mid-1990s.
THE GENDER PROFILE of Tanzania is not an official document but rather a “living document” reflecting the views of the women and men who participated in the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (the TGNP) from December 1992 to June 1993.
THIS REPORT IS based on participatory research in 21 villages in seven regions of mainland Tanzania, chosen to represent a wide range of ethnic groups, religions and social and economic systems.
THIS BOOK COLLATES the experiences of various Latin American and Dutch consultants of incorporating the gender dimension in development project work, with an emphasis on the perspectives of NGOs, cooperation agencies and peasant women.
WHAT ARE THE main strengths and limitations of integrating a gender perspective into human settlements policies in Latin America?
THIS BOOK USES material derived from empirical data collected in nine countries as part of the Commonwealth Youth Project.
THIS PUBLICATION IS an inventory of women's information, firmly rooted in the needs of the future as defined in the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. This Global Source Book is part of a project called Mapping the World, which also includes a website and a database.