Download or read book Development, Crises and Alternative Visions written by Gita Sen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes and analyzes three decades of economic, political, and cultural policies and politics toward third world women. Focusing on the impact of the current global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, and fundamentalism - the authors show how, through organization, poor women have begun to mobilize creative and effective development strategies to pull themselves and their families out of immiserating circumstances.