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1. AIDS, Gender and Economic Development

   Edited by Cecilia Conrad, Cheryl Doss

   This collection of essays, authored by experts across a wide range of disciplines, provides a gendered analysis of the economic choices and structures that contribute to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the impact of the epidemic on economic and social outcomes. Topics covered include: gender norms,...

   Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge
2. Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy

   Livelihoods in Pastoralist Communities

   By John G. McPeak, Peter D. Little, Cheryl R. Doss

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Women and the Distribution of Wealth

   Feminist Economics

   Edited by Carmen Diana Deere, Cheryl Doss

   Gender is rarely taken into account in analyses of the distribution of wealth, and the evidence on women’s ownership of wealth is surprisingly scarce. It is important to examine the distribution of wealth by gender because gender is one important dimension along which inequality exists. In addition...

   Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge