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Intersecting inequalities : women and social policy in Peru, 1990-2000

Intersecting Inequalities joins research carried out over seven years. Three previously unpublished chapters outline and theoretically sustain the main argument of the book, which is that the reproduction of intersecting inequalities can be found in policy design and implementation and the institutionalisation of long-standing inequalities and prejudices based on gender, race and class. Chapter one provides the theoretical framework, chapter two provides the historical context and is largely based on unpublished archival material and interviews, chapter three, four and five provide previously published case studies forming the data to the argument, and chapter six draws on new empirical material to show how women’s agency counters a politics that reinforces unfavourable structures.