Items where Author is "Chant, Sylvia"

Ramalho, Jordana and Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2020) Missing girls in urban slums of the Global South? Exploring the intersections between puberty, poverty and gender Inequality. Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series (1). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2019) Cell seller, Gambia. LSE Research Festival 2019, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Bradshaw, Sarah, Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Linneker, Brian (2019) Challenges and changes in gendered poverty: the feminization, de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty in Latin America. Feminist Economics, 25 (1). 119 - 144. ISSN 1354-5701

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2018) Gambian ‘vous’. LSE Research Festival 2018, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Bradshaw, Sarah, Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Linneker, Brian (2017) Knowing gendered poverty in the Global South: a protracted path to progress? Spazio Filosofico, 20. ISSN 2038-6788

Bradshaw, Sarah, Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Linneker, Brian (2017) Gender and poverty: what we know, don’t know and need to know for Agenda 2030. Gender, Place and Culture, 24 (12). 1667 - 1688. ISSN 0966-369X

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751, Klett-Davies, Martina and Ramalho, Jordana (2017) Challenges and potential solutions for adolescent girls in urban settings: a rapid evidence review. . Overseas Development Institute, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751, Klett-Davies, Martina and Ramalho, Jordana (2017) Challenges and potential solutions for adolescent girls in urban settings: a rapid evidence review: annexes. . Overseas Development Institute, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2016) Addressing world poverty through women and girls: a feminised solution. Sight and Life Magazine, 30 (2). pp. 58-62.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2016) Galvanising girls for development? Critiquing the shift from ‘smart’ to ‘smarter economics’. Progress in Development Studies, 16 (4). 314 - 328. ISSN 1464-9934

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2016) Women, girls, and world poverty: empowerment, equality or essentialism? International Development Planning Review, 38 (1). pp. 1-24. ISSN 1474-6743

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2016) Von feminisierten zu feministischen Städten? Gender, Frauen und Urbanisierung im 21. Jahrhundert. Frauen*solidarität, 137 (3). ISSN 0178-6083

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and McIlwaine, Cathy (2015) Cities, slums and gender in the Global South: towards a feminised urban future. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415721646

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2015) Book review: gendered commodity chains: seeing women's work and households in global production. Contemporary Sociology, 44 (6). pp. 793-794. ISSN 0094-3061

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2015) All day every day. LSE Research Festival 2015, The London School of Economics and Political Science, GBR.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2015) Girl street vendors, Bakau. LSE Research Festival 2015, The London School of Economics and Political Science, GBR.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2015) The apprentice, Kanifing. LSE Research Festival 2015, The London School of Economics and Political Science, GBR.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2015) Gambian diaspora: Signs of separation and symbiosis. Africa at LSE (30 Mar 2015). Website.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2014) LSE research festival exhibitor interviews: Sylvia Chant. LSE Institute of Public Affairs Blog (20 Nov 2014). Website.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2014) Exemption. LSE Research Festival 2014, The London School of Economics and Political Science, GBR. (Submitted)

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2014) New era at Wassu. LSE Research Festival 2014, The London School of Economics and Political Science, GBR. (Submitted)

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2014) Our daughters, Wassu. LSE Research Festival 2014, The London School of Economics and Political Science, GBR. (Submitted)

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2014) Photo Blog: Hand-cooked food in the Gambia. Africa at LSE (17 Mar 2014). Website.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (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). pp. 296-316. ISSN 1756-6266

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Sweetman, Caroline (2012) Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development. Gender and Development, 20 (3). pp. 517-529. ISSN 1355-2074

Carrera, Leandro N. ORCID: 0000-0001-6561-9427, Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Cherti, Myriam (2012) Evidence from New Zealand suggests that the government’s plan for auto-enrolment into workplace pensions may substantially affect participation rates and total savings. British Politics and Policy at LSE (20 Jan 2012). Website.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2012) The disappearing of 'smart economics'?: The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality: some concerns about the preparatory process and the prospects for paradigm change. Global Social Policy, 12 (2). pp. 198-218. ISSN 1468-0181

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2011) The links between gender and poverty are over-simplified and under-problematised: a time of economic crisis is an opportune moment to re-think the ‘feminisation of poverty’ and address the ‘feminisation of responsibility’. British Politics and Policy at LSE (10 Mar 2011). Website.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2011) Household organisation and survival in developing countries. In: International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Elsevier (Firm), Oxford, England. ISBN 9780444522733

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2011) Women, gender and urban housing in the global south. In: International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Elsevier (Firm), Oxford, England. ISBN 9780444522733

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2011) Book review: working the night shift: women in India's call center industry - by Reena Patel. Gender, Place, and Culture, 18 (1). pp. 139-141. ISSN 0966-369X

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2011) Female headship and the 'feminisation of poverty'. In: Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, pp. 334-336. ISBN 9780073512297

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Evans, Alice (2010) Looking for the one(s): young love and urban poverty in The Gambia. Environment and Urbanization, 22 (2). pp. 353-369. ISSN 0956-2478

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2010) Book review: heterosexual Africa: the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS - by Marc Epprecht. Progress in Development Studies, 10 (4). pp. 370-375. ISSN 1464-9934

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2010) Gendered poverty across space and time: introduction and overview. In: The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9781848443341

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2010) Towards a (re)-conceptualisation of the 'feminisation of poverty': reflections on gender-differentiated poverty from the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. In: The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy. Elgar original reference. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 111-116. ISBN 9781848443341

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

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2010) Acknowledgements. In: Chant, Sylvia, (ed.) The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, xxv-xxvi. ISBN 9781848443341

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and McIlwaine, Cathy (2009) Geographies of development in the 21st century: an introduction to the Global South. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781847209658

Jones, Gareth A. ORCID: 0000-0001-9844-4547 and Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2009) Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction: exploring 'failure' with reference to education and work among urban youth in The Gambia and Ghana. Geoforum, 40 (2). pp. 184-196. ISSN 0016-7185

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2009) The 'feminisation of poverty' in Costa Rica: to what extent a conundrum? Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28 (1). pp. 19-43. ISSN 0261-3050

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2009) Gender and manufacturing employment. In: Women in Asia: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies, Volume 2, Redefining Working Women. Routledge, London, pp. 142-185. ISBN 9780415445252

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2009) La ‘femenización de la pobreza’ en Costa Rica ¿un problema para las mujeres y los niños? Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, 33-34. pp. 205-260. ISSN 0377-7316

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2009) Single motherhood and poverty: the case of the Netherlands. In: Single Motherhood and Poverty : the Case of the Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press, Netherlands, pp. 5-7. ISBN 9789052603254

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2008) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In: Corbridge, Stuart, (ed.) Development - Critical Essays in Human Geography. Contemporary foundations of space and place. Ashgate Dartmouth, Aldershot, UK, pp. 111-132. ISBN 9780754626817

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2008) Dangerous equations? How female-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. In: Momsen, Janet, (ed.) Gender and Development: Critical Concepts in Development Studies. Critical concepts in development. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 397-409. ISBN 9780415422727

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2008) Beyond incomes: a new take on the 'Feminisation of poverty'. Poverty in Focus (13).

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2008) The curious question of feminising poverty in Costa Rica: the importance of gendered subjectivities. New working paper series (22). Gender Institute, LSE, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2008) Kobieta jako glowa gospodarstwa domowego: niewzruszone przekonania a codzienna rzeczywistosc (Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities?). Think Tank Feministyczny. pp. 91-130. ISSN 2657-9030

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Pedwell, Carolyn (2008) Women, gender and the informal economy: an assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward. . International Labour Office, Geneva. ISBN 9789221206095

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2008) The 'feminisation of poverty' and the 'feminisation' of anti-poverty programmes: room for revision? The Journal of Development Studies, 44 (2). pp. 165-197. ISSN 0022-0388

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Gender, cities and the millennium development goals in the global south. New Working Paper Series (21). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Book review: using gender research in development, Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Bonnie McClafferty. Gender and Development, 15 (1). pp. 157-159. ISSN 1355-2074

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Children in female-headed households: interrogating the concept of an ‘inter-generational transmission of disadvantage’ with particular reference to the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. New Working Paper Series (19). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Book review: sex in development: science, sexuality and morality in global perspective. Progress in Development Studies, 7 (2). pp. 163-164. ISSN 1464-9934

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty. In: Tsompanoglou, George, (ed.) Κοινωνική ανάπτυξη και κοινοτική συνοχή. Κοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις (Social Development and Community Cohesion: Sociological A. Papazisi, Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789600221657

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis. In: Tsompanoglou, George, (ed.) Κοινωνική ανάπτυξη και κοινοτική συνοχή. Κοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις (Social Development and Community Cohesion: Sociological A. Papazisi, Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789600221657

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Gender, generation and poverty: exploring the 'Feminisation of poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781843769927

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Craske, Nikki (2007) Género en Latinoamérica. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Mexico), Mexico. ISBN 9784684696079

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In: Segura, Denise A. and Zavella, Patricia, (eds.) Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: a Reader. Latin America otherwise. Duke University Press, Durham, U.S., pp. 360-368. ISBN 9780822340973

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) Women and health: poor women in cities suffer most. Habitat Debate, 13 (4). p. 7. ISSN 1020-3613

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shantytowns. In: Women and Migration in the Us-Mexico Borderlands. Latin America otherwise. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 360-368. ISBN 9780822341185

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2007) The informal sector and employment. In: The Companion to Development Studies. Hodder Education (Firm), London, UK, pp. 216-224. ISBN 9780340889145

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Re-thinking the "feminization of poverty" in relation to aggregate gender indices. Journal of Human Development, 7 (2). pp. 201-220. ISSN 1464-9888 (Submitted)

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Revisiting the 'feminisation of poverty' and the UNDP gender indices: what case for a gendered poverty index? New series working paper (18). Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Book review: Women's Rights and Islamic family law: perspectives on reform. Progress in Development Studies, 6 (4). pp. 370-372. ISSN 1464-9934

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Book review: women, Islam and modernity: single women, sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia. Asian Affairs, 37 (3). pp. 401-402. ISSN 0306-8374

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty. In: Jaquette, Jane and Summerfield, Gale, (eds.) Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources and Mobilisation. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 87-106. ISBN 9780822336983

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. In: Cornwall, Andrea, Harrison, Elizabeth and Whitehead, Ann, (eds.) Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges. Zed Books, London, UK, pp. 35-47. ISBN 1842778188

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Diane Elson. In: Simon, David, (ed.) Fifty Key Thinkers on Development. Routledge key guides (1st). Routledge, London, pp. 84-89. ISBN 0415337895

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2006) Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis. In: Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia and Shefner, John, (eds.) Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America. Pennsylvania State University Press, Philadelphia, USA, pp. 125-163. ISBN 0271027517

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Jones, Gareth A. ORCID: 0000-0001-9844-4547 (2005) Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: perspectives from Ghana and The Gambia. Children's Geographies, 3 (2). pp. 185-199. ISSN 1473-3277

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2005) Book review: a courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24 (1). pp. 139-141. ISSN 0261-3050

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2005) Book review: feminist futures: women, culture and development. American Anthropologist, 107 (1). p. 141. ISSN 0002-7294

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2005) Book review: threatening others: Nicaraguans and the formation of national identities in Costa Rica. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24 (4). pp. 547-548. ISSN 0261-3050

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2005) ¿Como podemos hacer que la “feminizacion de la pobreza” resulte mas relevante en materia de politicas? ¿Hacia una "feminizacion de la responsabilidad y la obligacion"? In: Mora, Luis, Moreno Ruiz, María José and Rohrer, Tania, (eds.) Cohesion Social, Politicas Conciliadoras y Presupuesto Publico: Una Mirada Desde El Genero. UNFPA, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, pp. 201-234.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Gutmann, Matthew (2005) 'Men-streaming' gender? Questions for gender and development policy on the 21st century. In: Haugerud, Angelique and Edelman, Marc, (eds.) Anthropology of Development and Globalisation: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Massachusetts, USA, pp. 240-249.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2004) Female headship and the "feminisation of poverty". Poverty In Focus: an Online Bulletin of the Undp International Poverty Centre, 3 (May). pp. 3-5.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2004) Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. IDS Bulletin, 35 (4). pp. 19-26. ISSN 0265-5012

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Moreno, Wagner (2004) "Desintegración familiar" o "transición familiar"? Perspectivas sobre cambio familiar en Guanacaste. Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia, 5 (1-2: s). ISSN 1409-469X

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2004) Men in crisis? In: Palmer, Steven and Molina, Iván, (eds.) The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture and Politics. The Latin America readers. Duke University Press, North Carolina, pp. 350-357. ISBN 9780822333722

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2004) Urban livelihoods, employment and gender. In: Gwynne, Robert. N and Cristóbal, Kay, (eds.) Latin America Transformed : Globalization and Modernity. Arnold Publication (2nd). Hodder Arnold (Firm), London, UK, pp. 210-231. ISBN 9780340809303

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2004) WID vs GAD. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopedia of International Development. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 760-761. ISBN 041525342x

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2004) Women-headed households. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopedia of International Development. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 761-763. ISBN 041525342X

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2003) Nuevas contribuciones al análisis de la pobreza: desafíos metodológicos y conceptuales para entender la pobreza desde una perspectiva de género. Serie mujer y desarrollo (47). United Nations, Santiago, Chile. ISBN 9213222742

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2003) The ‘engendering’ of poverty analysis in developing regions : progress since the United Nations Decade For Women, and priorities for the future. New Working Paper Series (11). Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2003) New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. Mujer y desarrollo series (47). United Nations, Santiago, Chile. ISBN 9211214157

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2003) Female household headship and the feminisation of poverty : facts, fictions and forward strategies. New Working Paper Series (9). Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2003) Families on the verge of breakdown? Views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. In: Menjívar, Cecilia, (ed.) Through the Eyes of Women: Gender, Social Networks, Family and Structural Change in Latin America and the Caribbean. De Sitter Publications, pp. 112-151.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Gutmann, Matthew C. (2002) "Men-streaming" gender?: questions for gender and development policy in the 21st century. Progress in Development Studies, 2 (4). pp. 269-282. ISSN 1464-9934

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2002) Researching gender, families and households in Latin America: from the 20th into the 21st century. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21 (4). pp. 545-575. ISSN 0261-3050

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2002) Whose crisis? Public and popular reactions to family change in Costa Rica. In: Abel, Christopher and Lewis, Colin M., (eds.) Exclusion and Engagement: Social Policy in Latin America. Brookings Institution, London, UK, pp. 349-377. ISBN 9781900039505

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2002) Female employment in Puerto Vallarta: a case study. In: Grewal, Inderpal and Kaplan, Caren, (eds.) An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Boston, pp. 136-143. ISBN 9780071093804

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2002) ¿Crisis de la familia? ¿Crisis de la masculinidad? Reflexiones sobre las masculinidades, el trabajo y la familia en el noroeste de Costa Rica. In: Rodriguez Sáenz, Eugenia, (ed.) Un Siglo De Luchas Femeninas En America Latina. Universidad de Costa Rica. Editorial, San José, Costa Rica, pp. 177-196. ISBN 9977677077

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2002) Families on the verge of breakdown? : views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of Developing Societies, 18 (2-3). pp. 109-148. ISSN 0169-796X

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Craske, Nikki (2002) Gender in Latin America. Latin American Bureau, London, UK. ISBN 9781899365531

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2002) The informal sector and employment. In: Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert, (eds.) The Companion to Developmental Studies. Hodder Education (Firm), London, UK, pp. 206-215. ISBN 9780340760505

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751, McIlwaine, Cathy and Evans, Sally Lloyd (2001) Making a living: employment, livelihoods and the informal sector. In: McIlwaine, Cathy and Willis, Katie, (eds.) Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. DARG regional development series (no. 2). Pearson Education, Inc., Harlow, pp. 110-135. ISBN 9780582404854

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2001) Men, women and household diversity. In: McIlwaine, Cathy and Willis, Katie, (eds.) Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. DARG regional development series (no. 2). Pearson Education, Inc., Harlow, UK, pp. 26-60. ISBN 9780582404854

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2001) Lone mothers in the nations of the South. In: Smelser, Neil and Baltes, Paul, (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Elsevier (Firm), Oxford, UK, pp. 9046-9052. ISBN 9780080430768

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2001) Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the 'feminisation of poverty' thesis. . Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2001) Hogares encabezados por mujeres ¿Los más pobres entre los pobres? Perspectives de México, Costa Rica y Filipinas. (Households headed by women: poorest of the poor? Perspectives from Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines). In: De Villota, Paloma, (ed.) Globalizacion a Qué Precio? El Impacto En Las Mujares Del Norte y Del Sur. Icaria (Firm), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 211-256. ISBN 8474265487

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2001) Men in crisis? reflections on masculinities, work and family in northwest Costa Rica. In: Jackson, Cecile, (ed.) Men at Work : Labour, Masculinities, Development. Frank Cass & Co., London, UK, pp. 199-218. ISBN 9780714651439

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2000) From "woman-blind" to "man-kind": should men have more space in gender and development? IDS Bulletin, 31 (2). pp. 7-17. ISSN 0265-5012

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2000) Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. In: Willis, Katie and Yeoh, Brenda, (eds.) Gender and Migration. International library of studies on migration. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 46-63. ISBN 9781840640731

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2000) Las unidades domesticas encabezadas por mujeres en Mexico y Costa Rica: perspectivas populares y globales sobre el tema del las madres solas (Women-headed households in Mexico and Costa Rica: grassroots and global perspectives on lone motherhood). In: Gonzalez de la Rocha, Mercedes, (ed.) Divergencias Del Modelo Tradicional: Hogares De Jefatura Femenina En América Latina. Plaza y Valdés (Firm), Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 97-102. ISBN 9684963602

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Gutmann, Matthew (2000) Mainstreaming men into gender and development: debates, reflections and experiences. Oxfam working papers. Oxfam Publishing. ISBN 9780855984519

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (2000) Men in crisis? Reflections on masculinities, work and family in north-west Costa Rica. European Journal of Development Research, 12 (2). pp. 199-218. ISSN 0957-8811

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1999) Informal sector activity in the third world city. In: Pacione, Michael, (ed.) Applied Geography: Principles and Practice. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 509-527. ISBN 9780415182683

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1999) Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities? In: Afshar, Haleh and Barrientos, Stephanie, (eds.) Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World. Women’s studies at York series. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 91-130. ISBN 9780333739273

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1999) El papel de la mujer en la recesión y re-estructuración económica en México y las Filipinas (The role of women in recession and economic restructuring in Mexico and the Philippines). Generos, 5 (17). pp. 25-28. ISSN 1405-3098

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1999) Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. Geoforum, 22 (3). pp. 237-253. ISSN 0016-7185

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1999) Population, migration, employment and gender. In: Gwynne, Robert and Kay, Cristóbal, (eds.) Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity. Edward Arnold, London, pp. 226-271. ISBN 0340691654

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1998) Households, gender and rural-urban migration: reflections on linkages and considerations for policy. Environment and Urbanization, 10 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 0956-2478

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1997) Marginal (m)others: lone parents and female household headship in the Philippines. European Journal of Development Research, 9 (2). pp. 1-34. ISSN 0957-8811

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1997) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In: Visvanathan, Nalini, Duggan, Lynne, Nisonoff, Laurie and Wiegersma, Nan, (eds.) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. Zed Books, London, UK, pp. 155-166. ISBN 9781856491426

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1997) Gender aspects of urban economic growth and development. Research paper (137). United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland.

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1997) Género, urbanización y pobreza: el reto de los "hogares" (Gender, urbanisation and poverty: the challenge of 'the household'). Economia, Sociedad y Territorio, 1 (2). pp. 257-284. ISSN 1405-8421

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 and Campling, Jo (1997) Women-headed households: diversity and dynamics in the developing world. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312172428

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1997) Solteras o 'de gegreso'? Las vias hacia la jefatura femenina en los hogares de Mexico y Costa Rica 1982-1994-(Single or return? Journeys in female household headship in Mexico and Costa Rica 1982-1994). In: Rodríguez Sáenz, Eugenia, (ed.) entre Silencios y Voces: Género e Historia en América Central (1975-1990). Centro Nacional para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Familia (Costa Rica) / Universidad de Costa Rica Editorial, San Jose, Costa Rica, pp. 217-248. ISBN 9977676038

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1997) Women-headed households: poorest of the poor? Perspectives from Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines. IDS Bulletin, 28 (3). pp. 26-48. ISSN 0265-5012

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1996) Gender and tourism employment in Mexico and the Philippines. In: Sinclair, M Thea, (ed.) Gender, Work and Tourism. Routledge advances in tourism. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 120-179. ISBN 9780415109857

Chant, Sylvia ORCID: 0000-0002-0020-3751 (1985) Single-parent families: choice or constraint? Development and Change, 16 (4). pp. 635-656. ISSN 0012-155X