Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South

Towards a Feminised Urban Future (2016)

Chant, Sylvia and McIlwaine, Cathy

Routledge: London. 312pp.

This book revolves around conceptualisation of the ‘gender-urban-slum interface’ which explains key elements to understanding women’s experiences in slum environments. It has a specific focus on the ways in which gender inequalities are can be entrenched but also alleviated.

The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty

Concepts, Research, Policy (2010)

Chant, Sylvia (editor)

Edward Elgar: Cheltenham/Northampton MA. 698pp.

Nominated for Geographical Perspectives on Women [GPOW] Award, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, 12-16 April 2011

In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage.

Geographies of Development in the 21st Century

An Introduction to the Global South (2009)

Chant, Sylvia and McIlwaine, Cathy

Edward Elgar: Cheltenham/Northampton MA. 384pp.

‘Book of the month’, Elgar’s Politics, Public and Social Policy website, January 2009.

Gender, family, poverty, employment, household livelihoods, the informal economy, housing, migration, civil society, conflict and violence, all covered with development in the contemporary Global South. Incorporating field research from Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador, the Philippines, Botswana and The Gambia.

Gender, Generation and Poverty

Exploring the ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Chant, Sylvia (2007) Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America,

Edward Elgar: Cheltenham/Northampton MA. 448 pp., ‘Book of the month’, Elgar’s Politics, Public and Social Policy website, June 2007. Nominated for Peter Townsend Policy Prize, December 2010.

In Gender, Generation and Poverty Sylvia Chant challenges the ‘feminisation of poverty’ on the basis of recent fieldwork in The Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. Interviews with over 220 women and men of different ages at the grassroots, as well as with 40 professionals in international agencies, government departments and NGOs, highlight the difficulties of establishing any general tendency towards a widening of gender disparities in income poverty, or for female household heads to be the ‘poorest of the poor’.