‘The unbearable heaviness of being’

Katherine Brickell and Sylvia Chant
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Katherine Brickell: Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Sylvia Chant: Department of Geography, & Environment, London School of Economics & Political Science

Progress in Development Studies, 2010, vol. 10, issue 2, 145-159

Abstract: Reviewing existing scholarship and drawing on our own experience of microlevel qualitative research on gender in countries in three regions of the Global South (Cambodia, the Philippines, Costa Rica and The Gambia), this article examines patterns of women’s altruistic behaviour within poor family-based households. As a quality and practice labeled as ‘feminine’, the article illuminates the motives, dimensions and dynamics that characterise this apparently enduring female trait. It also makes some tentative suggestions as to how the links between women and altruism might be more systematically examined, problematized and addressed in development, and gender and development (GAD) analysis and policy.

Keywords: Altruism; gender; household; Asia; Africa; Central America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340901000204

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