Poverty in the 1990's:  the responses of urban women / 
edited by Fatima Meer. 
 - [Paris] :  UNESCO and The International Social Science Council,  1994. 
 - 289 p.;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Contents: Women and poverty in the 1990's: the responses of women in South Africa / Fatima Meer -- Structural adjustment in Zimbabwe: the way forward for low income urban women? / Nazneen Kanji -- Using the courts to obtain relief: Akan women and family courts in Ghana / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Women and poverty in urban Latin America: Mexican and Costa Rican experiences / Sylvia H. Chant -- Women's survival strategies in urban areas: Caricom and Guyana / Sybil Patterson -- Housing and household survival strategies in urban areas: a case study of the Solanda settlement, Quito, Ecuador / Lillia Rodriguez -- Strong Detroit women in global perspective: their struggle for university degrees and 'passports out of poverty' / Shirley Nuss -- Devising an empowerment paradigm for women in the Philippines: the importance of the family in urban micro-enterprises / Fe B. Mangahas and Virginia J. Pasalo -- Kitchen to kitchen via the market: poor women becoming self-reliant, a case study from India / Nishitha Sharma -- From survival to self-reliance: the experience of Self-Employed women's Association (SEWA) / Ela Bhatt. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>92910700113 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--Economic conditions<br/>Poor women
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ 1154  / .P68 1994