Single-Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-Headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns

Chant, Sylvia (1997)
in Nalini Visvanathan, Lynne Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and Nan Wiegersma (eds), The Women, Gender and Development Reader
(Zed: London), pp.155-66
(reprinted abridged version of article in Development and Change, Vol.16 No.4, pp.635-56, 1985).