Sylvia Chant

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Sylvia Chant is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Sylvia Hamilton Chant was a British academic who was professor of Development Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was co-director of the MSc Urbanisation and Development Programme in the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.

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The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ and the ‘Feminisation’ of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room for Revision? (2008) (373)
Gender and migration in developing countries. (1994) (342)
Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development (2012) (327)
Household Decisions, Gender and Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research (2005) (314)
Women-Headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World (1997) (270)
Re‐thinking the “Feminization of Poverty” in Relation to Aggregate Gender Indices (2006) (267)
Migration and development: the importance of gender. (1992) (256)
Gender in Latin America (2002) (213)
Cities through a “gender lens”: a golden “urban age” for women in the global South? (2013) (195)
Women-headed households: poorest of the poor? Perspectives from Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines (1997) (180)
Female household headship and the feminisation of poverty : facts, fictions and forward strategies (2003) (175)
Households, gender and rural-urban migration: reflections on linkages and considerations for policy (1998) (175)
Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas (1989) (168)
Women of a Lesser Cost: Female Labour, Foreign Exchange and Philippine Development (1995) (162)
Women and Survival in Mexican Cities: Perspectives on Gender, Labour Markets and Low Income Households (1991) (151)
Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana and the Gambia (2005) (137)
Mainstreaming men into gender and development: debates, reflections and experiences (2000) (137)
Women, girls and world poverty: empowerment, equality or essentialism? (2016) (134)
Dangerous Equations? How Female‐headed Households Became the Poorest of the Poor: Causes, Consequences and Cautions (2004) (134)
Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the Feminisation of Poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America (2007) (116)
Women, gender and the informal economy:An assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward (2008) (104)
Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction: Exploring ‘failure’ with reference to education and work among urban youth in The Gambia and Ghana (2009) (103)
Geographies of Development in the 21st Century: An Introduction to the Global South (2009) (100)
The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty (2010) (99)
‘Men-streaming’ gender? Questions for gender and development policy in the twenty-first century (2002) (97)
New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective (2003) (86)
Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a feminised urban future (2015) (84)
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 (2012) (82)
The Urbanization of the Third World (1989) (80)
Men in Crisis? Reflections on Masculinities, Work and Family in North-West Costa Rica (2000) (75)
Exploring the “feminisation of poverty” in relation to women’s work and home-based enterprise in slums of the Global South (2014) (74)
‘The unbearable heaviness of being’ (2010) (72)
From ‘Woman-Blind’ to ‘Man-Kind’Should Men Have More Space in Gender and Development? (2000) (70)
Mainstreaming men into gender and development (2000) (64)
Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns (1985) (61)
Gender and poverty: what we know, don’t know, and need to know for Agenda 2030 (2017) (58)
Women in the Third World (1989) (57)
Women, Work and Household Survival Strategies in Mexico, 1982-1992: Past Trends, Current Tendencies and Future Research (1994) (56)
Household and Class Relations: Peasants and Landlords in Northern Peru (1990) (55)
Gender, generation and poverty (2007) (55)
Gender and tourism employment in Mexico and the Philippines (2005) (55)
Women-headed households (1997) (48)
Community leadership and self-help housing (1987) (46)
Gender and Export Manufacturing in the Philippines: Continuity or change in female employment? The case of the Mactan Export Processing Zone (1995) (45)
Women's movements in international perspective: Latin America and beyond (2002) (43)
Challenges and Changes in Gendered Poverty: The Feminization, De-Feminization, and Re-Feminization of Poverty in Latin America (2018) (41)
Women's roles in recession and economic restructuring in Mexico and the Philippines (1996) (40)
Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. (1991) (40)
Gender, Urban Development and Housing (1996) (38)
Women-headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities (1999) (36)
Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women’s Work and Households in Global Production (2015) (34)
Single–Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? (1985) (34)
The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (2012) (33)
Galvanizing girls for development? Critiquing the shift from ‘smart’ to ‘smarter economics’ (2016) (32)
Looking for the one(s): young love and urban poverty in The Gambia (2010) (31)
Gender, Women, and Health in the Americas (1995) (30)
Gendered Poverty Across Space and Time: Introduction and Overview (2010) (30)
Revisiting the 'feminisation of poverty' and the UNDP gender indices: what case for a gendered poverty index? (2006) (30)
Families on the Verge of Breakdown? Views on Contemporary Trends in Family Life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica (2002) (28)
The 'Feminisation of Poverty' in Costa Rica: To What Extent a Conundrum? (2009) (28)
Poverty Begins at Home? Questioning some (mis)conceptions about children, poverty and privation in female-headed households (2007) (28)
The ‘engendering’ of poverty analysis in developing regions : progress since the United Nations Decade For Women, and priorities for the future (2003) (28)
Tourism in Latin America: perspectives from Mexico and Costa Rica. (1992) (28)
Gender, Cities, and the Millennium Development Goals in the Global South (2007) (27)
The informal sector and employment (2002) (20)
Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa (2014) (20)
Women in Cities: Prosperity or Poverty? A Need for Multi-dimensional and Multi-spatial Analysis (2015) (18)
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 (2007) (17)
The Curious Question of Feminising Poverty in Costa Rica: The Importance of Gendered Subjectivities (2008) (17)
Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis (2001) (16)
Contributions of a Gender Perspective to the Analysis of Poverty (2020) (16)
Three generations, two genders, one world: women and men in a changing century (2001) (16)
Female household headship as an asset? Interrogating the intersections of urbanisation, gender, and domestic transformations (2015) (16)
Family Formation and Female Roles in Queretaro, Mexico1 (1985) (14)
Towards a (re)-conceptualisation of the 'feminisation of poverty': reflections on gender-differentiated poverty from the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica (2010) (14)
Full Circles: Geographies of Women over the Life Course (1993) (13)
Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance (1997) (12)
Population, migration, employment and gender (1999) (11)
Family Structure and Low-Income Housing Policy (1987) (11)
Informal sector activity in the third world city (1999) (11)
Urban livelihoods, employment and gender (2004) (11)
7. Gender, Families and Households (2003) (10)
Family Formation and Female Roles in Querétaro, Mexico@@@Family Formation and Female Roles in Queretaro, Mexico (1985) (10)
Marginal (M)Others: Lone Parents and Female Household Headship in the Philippines (1997) (10)
1. Introduction: Gender in a Changing Continent (2003) (10)
Prelims - Gender in Latin America (2003) (9)
Gender & migration in developing countries. (1992) (9)
Female headship and the "feminisation of poverty" (2004) (9)
Feminization of Poverty (2012) (8)
Gender aspects of urban economic growth and development (1997) (8)
Gender, Urban Development and the Politics of Space (2020) (8)
Whose crisis? Public and popular reactions to family change in Costa Rica (2002) (8)
-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS: DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS IN THE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS: DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS IN THE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS: DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS IN THE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS: DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS IN THE (1997) (7)
‘I Won’t Stay Indian, I‘ll Keep Studying’: Race, Place and Discrimination in a Costa Rican High School ‐ by Stocker, Karen (2009) (6)
The Role of women in the execution of low-income housing projects : training module (1986) (6)
Single motherhood and poverty: the case of the Netherlands (2009) (6)
Beyond incomes: a new take on the 'Feminisation of poverty' (2008) (6)
'Men-streaming' gender? Questions for gender and development policy on the 21st century (2005) (6)
9. Gender and Migration (2003) (5)
Migration, Urbanization and Changing Gender Relations in the South (2014) (5)
Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines: National Perspectives (1997) (5)
The long shadow of ‘smart economics’: the making, methodologies and messages of the World Development Report 2012 (2013) (5)
Moving beyond gender and poverty to asset accumulation: evidence from low-income households in Guayaquil, Ecuador (2010) (5)
Challenges and potential solutions for adolescent girls in urban settings: a rapid evidence review: annexes (2017) (4)
Geography and gender, hindsight and foresight: A feminist development geographer’s reflections on: “How the Other Half Lives: The Geographical Study of Women” (2020) (4)
Women, gender and urban housing in the global south (2011) (4)
Knowing gendered poverty in the Global South: a protracted path to progress? (2017) (4)
Household Labour and Self-Help Housing in Queretaro, Mexico (2016) (3)
Gender and development in the 1990s (1995) (3)
'Men-Streaming' Gender? Questions for Gender and Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century (2002) (3)
Addressing World Poverty through Women and Girls: A feminized solution? (2017) (3)
Gender, poverty, and anti-poverty policy (2018) (3)
The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shantytowns (2007) (3)
Women-Headed Households and Development (1997) (2)
Prelims - Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development (2000) (2)
Making a living: employment, livelihoods and the informal sector (2001) (2)
8. Gender and Employment (2003) (2)
Men, women and household diversity (2001) (2)
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’ (2011) (2)
JO BEALL, BASUDEB GUHA-KHASNOBIS and RAVI KANBUR. Urbanisation and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. (Oxford University Press, 2010, xvii + pp. 327) (2012) (1)
Gender, poverty, and development (2014) (1)
“Missing Girls” in Urban Slums of the Global South? (2020) (1)
Analysing Poverty from a Gender Perspective (2007) (1)
Book Review: Feminist post-development thought: rethinking modernity, post-colonialism and representation (2004) (1)
4. Gender and Population (2003) (1)
6. Gender and Sexuality (2003) (1)
Analysing gender in cities of the South: introducing the ‘gender–urban–slum interface’ (2015) (1)
Culturing Poverty? Ethnicity, Religion, Gender and Social Disadvantage amongst South Asian Communities in the UK (2010) (1)
Gender and manufacturing employment (2009) (1)
Back Matter - Gender in Latin America (2003) (1)
Gendered urban prosperity and women’s empowerment in 21st century cities (2013) (1)
Book review: heterosexual Africa: the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS - by Marc Epprecht (2010) (1)
Gender, Generation and Poverty in The Gambia (2007) (1)
The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in the Global South: Assertions, Agendas and Evidence (2007) (1)
Lone Mothers in Nations of the South (2001) (1)
Gambian diaspora: Signs of separation and symbiosis (2015) (1)
Household organisation and survival in developing countries (2012) (1)
Dyson, T. 2010: Population and Development: The Demographic Transition. London and New York: Zed Books. xv + 269 pp. ISBN: 9781842779606 paper, £16.99 (2011) (1)
Gendered access to land and housing in cities and slums (2015) (1)
Men in crisis (2004) (1)
Historical Dictionary of The Gambia (2017) (1)
Key approaches and concepts (2015) (0)
5. Gender and Health (2003) (0)
Meagher, K., 2010: Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria. Oxford and Ibadan: James Currey and HEBN Publishers. xiv + 208 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1-84701-016-2 (James Currey paper), 978-978-0813734 (HEBN paper) (2011) (0)
Larsson, Anita, "Women Householders and Housing Strategies: The Case of Gaborone" (Book Review) (1991) (0)
Gender and poverty in the domestic domain (2015) (0)
Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens, Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Gender (Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2002), pp. xi+393, £20.95, pb. (2004) (0)
Shirlene Soto, Emergence of the Modern Mexican Woman: Her Participation in Revolution and Struggle for Equality 1910–1940 (Denver, Colorado: Arden Press, 1990), pp. xvi+199, $16.95 pb. (1992) (0)
Evidence from New Zealand suggests that the government’s plan for auto-enrolment into workplace pensions may substantially affect participation rates and total savings (2012) (0)
New era at Wassu (2014) (0)
Book review: women, Islam and modernity: single women, sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia (2006) (0)
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World: The Shanty Towns of Buenos Aires (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997), pp. xv+261, £50.00 hb. (1998) (0)
Photo Blog: Hand-cooked food in the Gambia (2014) (0)
LSE research festival exhibitor interviews: Sylvia Chant (2014) (0)
Gender, urban politics and governance (2015) (0)
Gender, Generation and Poverty in the Philippines (2007) (0)
Book Review: Women's rights and Islamic family law: perspectives on reform (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Book reviews: Gilbert, A. and Varley, A. 1991: Landlord and tenant: housing the poor in urban Mexico. Lon don : Routledge. xvi + 240 pp. f35.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 415 05593 8 (1992) (0)
Preston, David (ed.), "Latin-American Development: Geographical Perspectives" (Book Review) (1987) (0)
Book reviews: Hardoy, J., Cairncross, S. and Satterthwaite, D., editors, 1990: The poor die young: housing and health in third world cities. London: Earthscan. xxvi + 310 pp. £9.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85383 019 4 (1992) (0)
General (2010) (0)
Momsen, Janet Henshall, "Women and Development in the Third World" (Book Review) (1992) (0)
Whither Women-Headed Households? Directions for Theory, Research and Policy (1997) (0)
Gender and services in cities and slums (2015) (0)
Growing Up in Women Headed Households (1997) (0)
Women-Headed Households in Global Perspective (1997) (0)
8 The informal economy in cities of the South (2014) (0)
Victims or Survivors (1997) (0)
Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham (eds.), Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World , London: Routledge, 1997, £47.00 (£16.99 pbk), xvii+356 pp. (ISBN: 0[hyphen]415[hyphen]12687[hyphen]8 hbk; 0[hyphen]415[hyphen]14118[hyphen]4 pbk.) (1998) (0)
Book review: a courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families (2005) (0)
Book review: sex in development: science, sexuality and morality in global perspective (2007) (0)
Género, urbanización y pobreza: el reto de los "hogares" (Gender, urbanisation and poverty: the challenge of 'the household') (1997) (0)
Thanks to reviewers (2019) (0)
Schlyter, Ann, "Women Householders and Housing Strategies: The Case of Harare" (Book Review) (1991) (0)
Cell seller, Gambia (2019) (0)
DEVELOPMENT AND THE THIRD WORLD (2012) (0)
Book Review: Romit Chowdhury and Zaid Al Baset (eds), Men and Feminism in India (2020) (0)
A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Poverty Measurement THE INDIVIDUAL DEPRIVATION MEASURE Deprivation Measure Individual (2015) (0)
Review of Filipino peasant women: exploitation and resistance (1997) (0)
Dowell Gudmundson, "Costa Rica before Coffee: Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom" (Book Review) (1989) (0)
Economic development in Mexico: comparative perspectives on three intermediate cities - Puerto Vallarta, León and Querétaro. (1991) (0)
Introduction: Why Women-Headed Households? (1997) (0)
Gender, poverty and policy interventions (2015) (0)
Gender And Poverty In The Global South (2015) (0)
WID vs GAD (2004) (0)
Shelter, women and development: First and third world perspectives: Hemalata C. Dandekar (ed.) George Wahr Publishing Co, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993, xii + 447 pp (1994) (0)
Feminist Futures: Women, Culture and Development (2005) (0)
Matthew C. Gutmann (ed.), Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2003), pp. xi+416, £18.95, pb. (2005) (0)
Women and health: poor women in cities suffer most (2007) (0)
Nikki Craske and Maxine Molyneux (eds.), Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. xv+226, £45.00 hb. (2002) (0)
The apprentice, Kanifing (2015) (0)
South East Asia (2010) (0)
Gender-based violence in cities and slums (2015) (0)
Conceptual Context and Core Debates (1997) (0)
Book Review: Globalization and development studies: challenges for the 21st century (2003) (0)
Gendered poverties in relation to health, labour markets and assets (2015) (0)
Women in Cities (2015) (0)
Girl street vendors, Bakau (2015) (0)
Our daughters, Wassu (2014) (0)
Female employment in Puerto Vallarta: a case study (2002) (0)
Book reviews : Shidlo, G., editor, 1990: Housing policy in developing countries. London: Routledge. viii + 182 pp. £30.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 415 02135 9 (1992) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
Book review: feminist futures: women, culture and development (2005) (0)
Book Review: Landscapes of globalisation: Human geographies of economic change in the Philippines (2002) (0)
In search of a home: rental and shared housing in Latin America (1993) (0)
Book review: threatening others: Nicaraguans and the formation of national identities in Costa Rica (2005) (0)
Book review: working the night shift: women in India's call center industry - by Reena Patel (2011) (0)
Gender and urban productivity: education, employment and entrepreneurship (2015) (0)
Introduction: cities and slums in the Global South – the importance of gender (2015) (0)
Female Headship and the Urban Poor: Case Study Perspectives (1997) (0)
Women, Gender and the Informal Economy: The Work of the ILO and Ways Forward (2008) (0)
Conclusion: creating more gender-equitable cities (2015) (0)
Fiona Wilson, Sweaters: Gender, Class and Workshop-Based Industry in Mexico (Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1991), pp. ix + 224, £40.00. (1992) (0)
Gloria Rudolf, Panama's Poor: Victims, Agents, and Historymakers (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999), pp. xiii+298, $49.95 hb. (2000) (0)
With Thanks (2011) (0)
Book review: using gender research in development, Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Bonnie McClafferty (2007) (0)
Gender, Generation and Poverty in Costa Rica (2007) (0)
Book Review: Mexico City (1999) (0)
10. Conclusion - Gender in Latin America: Looking to the Future (2003) (0)
Thanks to reviewers (2006) (0)

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