A Discussion Panel co-hosted by the Gender Institute and Department of Geography & Environment with support from the LSE Annual Fund
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Panel: Diane Elson, Nancy Folbre, Maxine Molyneux
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Friday, 11 March 2011
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6PM Old Theatre - 8PM Atrium
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Chair: Sylvia Chant (Geography & Environment) with opening remarks from Eric Neumayer (Geography & Environment Director) and Clare Hemmings (Gender Institute Director)
Video
Video recording is available here.
Abstract
The Discussion Panel on Gender and Poverty in the 21st Century features three eminent international experts - Professor Diane Elson (University of Essex), Professor Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts) and Professor Maxine Molyneux (Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London). The Session will be opened by Professor Eric Neumayer (Geography and Environment, LSE) and introduced by Dr Clare Hemmings (Gender Institute, LSE). The Panel will be chaired by Professor Sylvia Chant, editor of The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (Edward Elgar 2010). Each speaker will briefly reflect on a theme reflected in or inspired by the Handbook, after which there will be a question and answer session with the audience.
Following the conclusion of the Panel, there will be a reception and book launch in the Atrium area of the Old Building, at which copies of The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty will be available at discount, and attendees will have a chance to hear from, and talk with, several contributors to the volume on an informal basis over drinks and canapés.
The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty provides a state-of-the-art review of the critical importance of gender in poverty assessment, analysis, activism, and policy in the world today. Its 104 chapters, written by a total of 125 contributors from across the globe, considers the links between gender and poverty in relation to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues such as local to global economic transformations, age and lifecourse, 'race', migration, assets, paid and unpaid work, families and households, men and masculinities, health, sexuality, human rights, and conflict and violence. The book also provides up-to-the-minute reflections on how to theorise gender and poverty, how to measure and represent it, and to consider how gendered poverty is affected by – and may be redressed – by policy and grassroots interventions.
Biographies
Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work, on which she currently coordinates a working group sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. In addition to numerous books and articles published in academic journals, as well as regular contributions to the New York Times. Her most recent authored work is Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford, 2009). Nancy's presentation on the panel is on Gender and the Care Economy. For more information about Nancy please click here.
Diane Elson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. She teaches and researches on women's rights and on economic policy and human rights; and also works with women's organisations and UN agencies. Diane has done extensive work on gender-responsive budgeting as reflected in her recent major publication Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW (UNIFEM, 2006). She is currently working on an edited book on macroeconomic policy and human rights in the USA and Mexico. Diane's presentation on the panel will be on the subject of Gender and the Global Economic Crisis. For more about Diane please click here.
Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has written extensively in the fields of political sociology, gender and development, human rights and social policy, and has authored books on Latin America, the Horn of Africa and South Arabia. Maxine's latest book is The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis (co-edited with Andrea Cornwall) (Routledge, 2008). Her current research is on social protection, rights, and citizenship and the link between economic and social policy in Latin America. Maxine's paper for the discussion panel will be entitled 'I sacrifice myself for my children' : Micro targetting, Motherhood and Cash Transfers. For more about Maxine please click here.
Sylvia Chant is Professor of Development Geography at the LSE. Her research has focused on various aspects of gender and development (GAD), including migration, housing, employment, female-headed households and the 'feminisation of poverty', with particular geographical interests in Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines and The Gambia. Sylvia has published widely in the GAD field, has been a consultant for various multilateral development agencies, and is the editor of The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty (Edward Elgar, 2010). For more information about Sylvia please click here.