Chant, Sylvia 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751
(2010)
The unbearable heaviness of being: reflections on female altruism in Cambodia, Philippines, The Gambia and Costa Rica.
Progress and Development Studies, 10 (2).
pp. 145-159.
ISSN 1464-9934
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://pdj.sagepub.com/content/10/2/145.full.pdf+h... |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2010 12:10 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30840 |
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