Where Did All The Men Go?

Joan P Mencher (Chair, The Second Chance Foundation) (Edited by)

1. Introduction 2. Poverty Versus "Purse Power": The Political Economy of the Mother-Child Family III 3. An Etic Model for the Scientific Study of the Causes of Matrifocality 4. A Way Out of No Way: Female-Headed Households in Jamaica Reconsidered 5. Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Households in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles 6. Some Conceptual Issues: Female Single-Parent Families in the United States 7. Similarities and Differences: Female-Headed Households in Brazil and Colombia 8. An Ignored Population: Female-Headed Households Among Refugees in Africa 9. Women-Headed Households from the Perspective of an Egyptian Village 10. Female-Headed, Female-Supported Households in India: Who Are They and What Are Their Survival Strategies? 11. Female-Headed Households in Rural Bangladesh: A Survey 12. Defining and Targeting Female-Headed Households for Development Assistance in South Asia 13. Policy Planning for Single Female-Headed Families: What Is Needed in the United States 14. Conclusion: Pulling It All Together