Development, labor, and poverty

Articles

Atal S., & Foster, J. (2021). “A woman’s life is tension”: A gendered analysis of women’s distress in poor urban India. Transcultural Psychiatry, 58(3), 404-413. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461520947836   

Çağatay, S. (2023). “If women stop, the world stops”: Forging transnational solidarities with the International Women’s Strike. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 25(4), 637–663. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2023.2170259 

Chant, S. (2013). Cities through a “gender lens”: A golden “urban age” for women in the global South? Environment and Urbanization, 25(1), 9-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247813477809 

Chant, S. (2014). Exploring the “feminisation of poverty” in relation to women’s work and home-based enterprise in slums of the Global South. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 6(3), 296-316. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-09-2012-0035 

Gyan, C., & Mfoafo-M’Carthy, M. (2021). Women’s participation in community development in rural Ghana: The effects of colonialism, neoliberalism, and patriarchy. Community Development, 53(3), 295–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2021.1959362 

Ireland, H. M. (2021). “Noble mothers” and their others: Racialized women entrepreneurs and poverty finance. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 22(7), Article 6. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss7/6 

Naidu, S. C., & Ossome, L. (2016). Social reproduction and the agrarian question of women’s labour in India. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 5(1), 50-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277976016658737 

Ossome, L. (2022). Third World feminist agrarian struggles and the colonial question for transnational feminist solidarity. Agenda, 36(4), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2022.2183571

Prasad, A. (2021). Women’s liberation and the agrarian question: Insights from peasant movements in India. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 10(1), 15-40. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277976020987045  

Sim, E., Bierema, L. L., Rousselot de Saint Céran, T., & He, W. (2024). Decolonising gendered discourse and practices in HRD: Towards transnational feminist solidarity and sustainability. Human Resource Development International, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2024.2326865 

Books and Chapters

Austin, M. (2024). Domestic workers in Indonesia: Feminist activism and a politics of presence. Liverpool University Press.  

Berik, G., & Kongar, E. (Eds.). (2023). The Routledge handbook of feminist economics. Routledge.

Metcalfe, B. D., & Makarem, Y. (2024). Feminism, diversity and HRD. Routledge.  

Moeller, K. (2018). The gender effect: Capitalism, feminism, and the corporate politics of development. University of California Press. 

Ossome, L., & Naidu, S. (2021). The agrarian question of gendered labour. In P. Jha, W. Chambati, & L. Ossome (Eds.), Labour questions in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4635-2_4 

Rodríguez Pérez, R. E., & Castro Lugo, D. (Eds.). (2025). Gender inequality in the global labor market: A feminist economics approach. Routledge. 

Rodríguez Pérez, R. E., & Castro Lugo, D. (Eds.). (2023). The economics of women and work in the global economy. Routledge. 

Sjöstedt, A., Giritli Nygren, K., & Fotaki, M. (Eds.). (2023). Working life and gender inequality: Intersectional perspectives and the spatial practices of peripheralization. Routledge.

Switzer, H., Desai, K., & Bent, E. (Eds.). Girls in global development: Figurations of gendered power. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805391777 

Tornhill, S. (2019). The business of women’s empowerment: Corporate gender politics in the Global South. Rowman & Littlefield. 

Walton-Roberts, M. (Ed.). (2022). Global migration, gender, and health professional credentials: Transnational value transfers and losses. University of Toronto Press.