Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: Introduction Judith Bruce and Daisy Dwyer
  • 1. The material consequences of reproductive failure in rural South Asia Mead Cain
  • 2. Intergenerational contracts: familial roots of sexual stratification in Taiwan Susan Greenhalgh
  • 3. Women are good with money: earning and managing in an Indonesian city Hanna Papanek and Laurel Schwede
  • 4. Women's work and poverty: women's contribution to household maintenance in South India Joan P. Mencher
  • 5. Household budgeting and financial management in a lower-income Cairo neighborhood Homa Hoodfar
  • 6. The nonpooling household: a challenge to theory Eleanor R. Fapohunda
  • 7. Dynamic approaches to domestic budgeting: cases and methods from Africa Jane Guyer
  • 8. Income allocation and marriage options in Urban Zambia Monica Munachonga
  • 9. The constraints on and release of female labor power: Dominican migration to the United States Patricia R. Pessar
  • 10. The impact of Agrarian reform on men's and women's incomes in rural Honduras Constantina Safilios-Rothschild
  • 11. Renegotiating the marital contract: intrahousehold patterns of money allocation and women's subordination among domestic out workers in Mexico city Martha Roldan
  • 12. The black four of hearts: toward a new paradigm of household economics Nancy Folbre.