Full Description
Conditional Cash Transfer Programs have been widely used throughout less developed countries to fight poverty and foster socioeconomic development. In Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers, a multidisciplinary group of feminist scholars use survey data analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic and archival research to explore the extent to which Bolsa Familia in Brazil contributes to women's autonomy and improves gender relations.
Comprised of nine chapters, written by authors from different regions of Brazil, this book captures perspectives from across Brazil to explain these regional social inequalities and provide historical, and up-to-date, insights of this program from a feminist perspective. The authors are able to move beyond conventional feminist knowledge on CCTs, women and gender relations, through considering questions of gender raised in the specialized literature related to Bolsa Familia, and by addressing concerns of intersectional categories such as race, ethnicity, age and geographic location,
Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers will be of great interest not only to scholars of Latin American politics, but also to students of development policy, public policy and gender.
Contents
1. Introduction: Bolsa Família in Polítical Context 2. Bolsa Família: Background, Operation, and Gender Issues 3. Beyond Distribution: Issues of Gender Justice in Fighting Poverty in Brazil 4. Bolsa Família in Bahia: Intersections of Class, Gender, Race and Generation 5. The Bolsa Família Program: Reflections on Its Role in Social Protection and Gender Relations in Brazil 6. Gender and Autonomy of Women in Poverty: An Investigation into the Bolsa Família Program 7. Conditionalities in the Bolsa Familia Program and Women's Use of Time in Domestic-Family Work 8. Stigmas and Controls on Bolsa Família Beneficiary Women 9. Conclusions
