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Gender Studies
  • Chant, Sylvia (2016). Galvanising girls for development? Critiquing the shift from ‘smart’ to ‘smarter economics’. Progress in Development Studies, 16(4), 314 - 328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993416657209
  • Chant, Sylvia (2016). Women, girls, and world poverty: empowerment, equality or essentialism? International Development Planning Review, 38(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2016.1
  • Chant, Sylvia (2016). Von feminisierten zu feministischen Städten? Gender, Frauen und Urbanisierung im 21. Jahrhundert. Frauen*solidarität, 137(3).
  • Chant, Sylvia, McIlwaine, Cathy (2015). Cities, slums and gender in the Global South: towards a feminised urban future. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315862996
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). LSE research festival exhibitor interviews: Sylvia Chant.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Beetham, Gwendolyn (Eds.) (2014). Gender, poverty, and development. Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). Exemption. LSE Research Festival 2014. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). New era at Wassu. LSE Research Festival 2014. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). Our daughters, Wassu. LSE Research Festival 2014. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). Photo Blog: Hand-cooked food in the Gambia.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Sweetman, Caroline (2012). Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development. Gender and Development, 20(3), 517-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2012.731812
  • Carrera, Leandro N., Chant, Sylvia, Cherti, Myriam (2012). Evidence from New Zealand suggests that the government’s plan for auto-enrolment into workplace pensions may substantially affect participation rates and total savings.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2012). The disappearing of 'smart economics'?: The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality: some concerns about the preparatory process and the prospects for paradigm change. Global Social Policy, 12(2), 198-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018112443674
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). The links between gender and poverty are over-simplified and under-problematised: a time of economic crisis is an opportune moment to re-think the ‘feminisation of poverty’ and address the ‘feminisation of responsibility’.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Household organisation and survival in developing countries. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home . Elsevier (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Women, gender and urban housing in the global south. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home . Elsevier (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Book review: working the night shift: women in India's call center industry - by Reena Patel. Gender, Place, and Culture, 18(1), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2011.535307
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Female headship and the 'feminisation of poverty'. In Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women (pp. 334-336). McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Evans, Alice (2010). Looking for the one(s): young love and urban poverty in The Gambia. Environment and Urbanization, 22(2), 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247810379822
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Book review: heterosexual Africa: the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS - by Marc Epprecht. Progress in Development Studies, 10(4), 370-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340901000411
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Gendered poverty across space and time: introduction and overview. In The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (pp. 1-26). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Towards a (re)-conceptualisation of the 'feminisation of poverty': reflections on gender-differentiated poverty from the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. In The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (pp. 111-116). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (Ed.) (2010). The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy. Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). The unbearable heaviness of being: reflections on female altruism in Cambodia, Philippines, The Gambia and Costa Rica. Progress and Development Studies, 10(2), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340901000204
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Acknowledgements. In Chant, Sylvia (Ed.), The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (pp. xxv-xxvi). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2009). Gender and manufacturing employment. In Women in Asia: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies, Volume 2, Redefining Working Women (pp. 142-185). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2009). La ‘femenización de la pobreza’ en Costa Rica ¿un problema para las mujeres y los niños? Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, 33-34, 205-260.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2009). Single motherhood and poverty: the case of the Netherlands. In Single Motherhood and Poverty : the Case of the Netherlands (pp. 5-7). Amsterdam University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). Beyond incomes: a new take on the 'Feminisation of poverty'. Poverty in Focus, (13),
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). The curious question of feminising poverty in Costa Rica: the importance of gendered subjectivities. (New working paper series 22). Gender Institute, LSE.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Pedwell, Carolyn (2008). Women, gender and the informal economy: an assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward. International Labour Office.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). The 'feminisation of poverty' and the 'feminisation' of anti-poverty programmes: room for revision? The Journal of Development Studies, 44(2), 165-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380701789810
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Gender, cities and the millennium development goals in the global south. (New Working Paper Series 21). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Book review: using gender research in development, Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Bonnie McClafferty. Gender and Development, 15(1), 157-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552070601179268
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Children in female-headed households: interrogating the concept of an ‘inter-generational transmission of disadvantage’ with particular reference to the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. (New Working Paper Series 19). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Book review: sex in development: science, sexuality and morality in global perspective. Progress in Development Studies, 7(2), 163-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340600700206
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Gender, generation and poverty: exploring the 'Feminisation of poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Craske, Nikki (2007). Género en Latinoamérica. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Mexico).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In Segura, Denise A., Zavella, Patricia (Eds.), Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: a Reader (pp. 360-368). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Women and health: poor women in cities suffer most. Habitat Debate, 13(4), p. 7.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shantytowns. In Women and Migration in the Us-Mexico Borderlands (pp. 360-368). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). The informal sector and employment. In The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 216-224). Hodder Education (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Re-thinking the "feminization of poverty" in relation to aggregate gender indices. Journal of Human Development, 7(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649880600768538
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Revisiting the 'feminisation of poverty' and the UNDP gender indices: what case for a gendered poverty index? (New series working paper 18). Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Book review: Women's Rights and Islamic family law: perspectives on reform. Progress in Development Studies, 6(4), 370-372.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Book review: women, Islam and modernity: single women, sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia. Asian Affairs, 37(3), 401-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068370600906705
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty. In Jaquette, Jane, Summerfield, Gale (Eds.), Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources and Mobilisation (pp. 87-106). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. In Cornwall, Andrea, Harrison, Elizabeth, Whitehead, Ann (Eds.), Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges (pp. 35-47). Zed Books.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Diane Elson. In Simon, David (Ed.), Fifty Key Thinkers on Development (pp. 84-89). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis. In Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia, Shefner, John (Eds.), Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America (pp. 125-163). Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Jones, Gareth A. (2005). Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: perspectives from Ghana and The Gambia. Children's Geographies, 3(2), 185-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733280500161602
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). Book review: a courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24(1), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0261-3050.2005.00128.x
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). Book review: feminist futures: women, culture and development. American Anthropologist, 107(1), p. 141. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2005.107.1.141.2
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). Book review: threatening others: Nicaraguans and the formation of national identities in Costa Rica. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24(4), 547-548.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). ¿Como podemos hacer que la “feminizacion de la pobreza” resulte mas relevante en materia de politicas? ¿Hacia una "feminizacion de la responsabilidad y la obligacion"? In Mora, Luis, Moreno Ruiz, María José, Rohrer, Tania (Eds.), Cohesion Social, Politicas Conciliadoras y Presupuesto Publico: Una Mirada Desde El Genero (pp. 201-234). UNFPA.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Gutmann, Matthew (2005). 'Men-streaming' gender? Questions for gender and development policy on the 21st century. In Haugerud, Angelique, Edelman, Marc (Eds.), Anthropology of Development and Globalisation: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (pp. 240-249). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Female headship and the "feminisation of poverty". Poverty In Focus: an Online Bulletin of the Undp International Poverty Centre, 3(May), 3-5.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. IDS Bulletin, 35(4), 19-26.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Moreno, Wagner (2004). "Desintegración familiar" o "transición familiar"? Perspectivas sobre cambio familiar en Guanacaste. Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia, 5(1-2: s).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Men in crisis? In Palmer, Steven, Molina, Iván (Eds.), The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture and Politics (pp. 350-357). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Urban livelihoods, employment and gender. In Gwynne, Robert. N, Cristóbal, Kay (Eds.), Latin America Transformed : Globalization and Modernity (pp. 210-231). Hodder Arnold (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). WID vs GAD. In Forsyth, Tim (Ed.), Encyclopedia of International Development (pp. 760-761). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Women-headed households. In Forsyth, Tim (Ed.), Encyclopedia of International Development (pp. 761-763). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Gutmann, Matthew C. (2002). "Men-streaming" gender?: questions for gender and development policy in the 21st century. Progress in Development Studies, 2(4), 269-282. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993402ps041ra
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). Whose crisis? Public and popular reactions to family change in Costa Rica. In Abel, Christopher, Lewis, Colin M. (Eds.), Exclusion and Engagement: Social Policy in Latin America (pp. 349-377). Brookings Institution.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). Female employment in Puerto Vallarta: a case study. In Grewal, Inderpal, Kaplan, Caren (Eds.), An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (pp. 136-143). McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). Families on the verge of breakdown? : views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of Developing Societies, 18(2-3), 109-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X0201800206
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). The informal sector and employment. In Desai, Vandana, Potter, Robert (Eds.), The Companion to Developmental Studies (pp. 206-215). Hodder Education (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia, McIlwaine, Cathy, Evans, Sally Lloyd (2001). Making a living: employment, livelihoods and the informal sector. In McIlwaine, Cathy, Willis, Katie (Eds.), Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (pp. 110-135). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2001). Men, women and household diversity. In McIlwaine, Cathy, Willis, Katie (Eds.), Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (pp. 26-60). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2001). Men in crisis? reflections on masculinities, work and family in northwest Costa Rica. In Jackson, Cecile (Ed.), Men at Work : Labour, Masculinities, Development (pp. 199-218). Frank Cass & Co..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2000). From "woman-blind" to "man-kind": should men have more space in gender and development? IDS Bulletin, 31(2), 7-17.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2000). Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. In Willis, Katie, Yeoh, Brenda (Eds.), Gender and Migration (pp. 46-63). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Gutmann, Matthew (2000). Mainstreaming men into gender and development: debates, reflections and experiences. Oxfam Publishing.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2000). Men in crisis? Reflections on masculinities, work and family in north-west Costa Rica. European Journal of Development Research, 12(2), 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/09578810008426772
  • Chant, Sylvia (1999). Population, migration, employment and gender. In Gwynne, Robert, Kay, Cristóbal (Eds.), Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity (pp. 226-271). Edward Arnold.
    • Geography and Environment
  • Ramalho, Jordana, Chant, Sylvia (2020). Missing girls in urban slums of the Global South? Exploring the intersections between puberty, poverty and gender Inequality. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 1). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Bradshaw, Sarah, Chant, Sylvia, Linneker, Brian (2019). Challenges and changes in gendered poverty: the feminization, de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty in Latin America. Feminist Economics, 25(1), 119 - 144. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1529417
  • Bradshaw, Sarah, Chant, Sylvia, Linneker, Brian (2017). Knowing gendered poverty in the Global South: a protracted path to progress? Spazio Filosofico, 20,
  • Bradshaw, Sarah, Chant, Sylvia, Linneker, Brian (2017). Gender and poverty: what we know, don’t know and need to know for Agenda 2030. Gender, Place and Culture, 24(12), 1667 - 1688. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1395821
  • Chant, Sylvia (2016). Addressing world poverty through women and girls: a feminised solution. Sight and Life Magazine, 30(2), 58-62.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2016). Galvanising girls for development? Critiquing the shift from ‘smart’ to ‘smarter economics’. Progress in Development Studies, 16(4), 314 - 328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993416657209
  • Chant, Sylvia (2016). Women, girls, and world poverty: empowerment, equality or essentialism? International Development Planning Review, 38(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2016.1
  • Chant, Sylvia (2016). Von feminisierten zu feministischen Städten? Gender, Frauen und Urbanisierung im 21. Jahrhundert. Frauen*solidarität, 137(3).
  • Chant, Sylvia, McIlwaine, Cathy (2015). Cities, slums and gender in the Global South: towards a feminised urban future. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315862996
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). Book review: gendered commodity chains: seeing women's work and households in global production. Contemporary Sociology, 44(6), 793-794. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306115609925k
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). All day every day. LSE Research Festival 2015. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). Girl street vendors, Bakau. LSE Research Festival 2015. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). The apprentice, Kanifing. LSE Research Festival 2015. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). Gambian diaspora: Signs of separation and symbiosis.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). LSE research festival exhibitor interviews: Sylvia Chant.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Beetham, Gwendolyn (Eds.) (2014). Gender, poverty, and development. Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). Exemption. LSE Research Festival 2014. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). New era at Wassu. LSE Research Festival 2014. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). Our daughters, Wassu. LSE Research Festival 2014. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). Photo Blog: Hand-cooked food in the Gambia.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2014). Exploring the “feminisation of poverty” in relation to women’s work and home-based enterprise in slums of the Global South. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 6(3), 296-316. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-09-2012-0035
  • Chant, Sylvia, Sweetman, Caroline (2012). Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development. Gender and Development, 20(3), 517-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2012.731812
  • Carrera, Leandro N., Chant, Sylvia, Cherti, Myriam (2012). Evidence from New Zealand suggests that the government’s plan for auto-enrolment into workplace pensions may substantially affect participation rates and total savings.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2012). The disappearing of 'smart economics'?: The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality: some concerns about the preparatory process and the prospects for paradigm change. Global Social Policy, 12(2), 198-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018112443674
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). The links between gender and poverty are over-simplified and under-problematised: a time of economic crisis is an opportune moment to re-think the ‘feminisation of poverty’ and address the ‘feminisation of responsibility’.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Household organisation and survival in developing countries. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home . Elsevier (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Women, gender and urban housing in the global south. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home . Elsevier (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Book review: working the night shift: women in India's call center industry - by Reena Patel. Gender, Place, and Culture, 18(1), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2011.535307
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). Female headship and the 'feminisation of poverty'. In Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women (pp. 334-336). McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Evans, Alice (2010). Looking for the one(s): young love and urban poverty in The Gambia. Environment and Urbanization, 22(2), 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247810379822
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Book review: heterosexual Africa: the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS - by Marc Epprecht. Progress in Development Studies, 10(4), 370-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340901000411
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Gendered poverty across space and time: introduction and overview. In The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (pp. 1-26). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Towards a (re)-conceptualisation of the 'feminisation of poverty': reflections on gender-differentiated poverty from the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. In The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (pp. 111-116). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (Ed.) (2010). The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy. Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). The unbearable heaviness of being: reflections on female altruism in Cambodia, Philippines, The Gambia and Costa Rica. Progress and Development Studies, 10(2), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340901000204
  • Chant, Sylvia (2010). Acknowledgements. In Chant, Sylvia (Ed.), The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (pp. xxv-xxvi). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia, McIlwaine, Cathy (2009). Geographies of development in the 21st century: an introduction to the Global South. Edward Elgar.
  • Jones, Gareth A., Chant, Sylvia (2009). Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction: exploring 'failure' with reference to education and work among urban youth in The Gambia and Ghana. Geoforum, 40(2), 184-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.07.008
  • Chant, Sylvia (2009). The 'feminisation of poverty' in Costa Rica: to what extent a conundrum? Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28(1), 19-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00288.x
  • Chant, Sylvia (2009). Gender and manufacturing employment. In Women in Asia: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies, Volume 2, Redefining Working Women (pp. 142-185). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2009). La ‘femenización de la pobreza’ en Costa Rica ¿un problema para las mujeres y los niños? Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, 33-34, 205-260.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2009). Single motherhood and poverty: the case of the Netherlands. In Single Motherhood and Poverty : the Case of the Netherlands (pp. 5-7). Amsterdam University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). Dangerous equations? How female-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. In Momsen, Janet (Ed.), Gender and Development: Critical Concepts in Development Studies (pp. 397-409). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). Beyond incomes: a new take on the 'Feminisation of poverty'. Poverty in Focus, (13),
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). The curious question of feminising poverty in Costa Rica: the importance of gendered subjectivities. (New working paper series 22). Gender Institute, LSE.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). Kobieta jako glowa gospodarstwa domowego: niewzruszone przekonania a codzienna rzeczywistosc (Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities?). Think Tank Feministyczny, 91-130.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). The 'feminisation of poverty' and the 'feminisation' of anti-poverty programmes: room for revision? The Journal of Development Studies, 44(2), 165-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380701789810
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Book review: using gender research in development, Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Bonnie McClafferty. Gender and Development, 15(1), 157-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552070601179268
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Book review: sex in development: science, sexuality and morality in global perspective. Progress in Development Studies, 7(2), 163-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340600700206
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty. In Tsompanoglou, George (Ed.), Κοινωνική ανάπτυξη και κοινοτική συνοχή. Κοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις (Social Development and Community Cohesion: Sociological A . Papazisi.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis. In Tsompanoglou, George (Ed.), Κοινωνική ανάπτυξη και κοινοτική συνοχή. Κοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις (Social Development and Community Cohesion: Sociological A . Papazisi.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Gender, generation and poverty: exploring the 'Feminisation of poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Craske, Nikki (2007). Género en Latinoamérica. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Mexico).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In Segura, Denise A., Zavella, Patricia (Eds.), Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: a Reader (pp. 360-368). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). Women and health: poor women in cities suffer most. Habitat Debate, 13(4), p. 7.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shantytowns. In Women and Migration in the Us-Mexico Borderlands (pp. 360-368). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2007). The informal sector and employment. In The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 216-224). Hodder Education (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Re-thinking the "feminization of poverty" in relation to aggregate gender indices. Journal of Human Development, 7(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649880600768538
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Revisiting the 'feminisation of poverty' and the UNDP gender indices: what case for a gendered poverty index? (New series working paper 18). Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Book review: Women's Rights and Islamic family law: perspectives on reform. Progress in Development Studies, 6(4), 370-372.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Book review: women, Islam and modernity: single women, sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia. Asian Affairs, 37(3), 401-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068370600906705
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty. In Jaquette, Jane, Summerfield, Gale (Eds.), Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources and Mobilisation (pp. 87-106). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. In Cornwall, Andrea, Harrison, Elizabeth, Whitehead, Ann (Eds.), Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges (pp. 35-47). Zed Books.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Diane Elson. In Simon, David (Ed.), Fifty Key Thinkers on Development (pp. 84-89). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2006). Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the feminisation of poverty thesis. In Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia, Shefner, John (Eds.), Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America (pp. 125-163). Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Jones, Gareth A. (2005). Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: perspectives from Ghana and The Gambia. Children's Geographies, 3(2), 185-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733280500161602
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). Book review: a courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24(1), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0261-3050.2005.00128.x
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). Book review: feminist futures: women, culture and development. American Anthropologist, 107(1), p. 141. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2005.107.1.141.2
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). Book review: threatening others: Nicaraguans and the formation of national identities in Costa Rica. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24(4), 547-548.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2005). ¿Como podemos hacer que la “feminizacion de la pobreza” resulte mas relevante en materia de politicas? ¿Hacia una "feminizacion de la responsabilidad y la obligacion"? In Mora, Luis, Moreno Ruiz, María José, Rohrer, Tania (Eds.), Cohesion Social, Politicas Conciliadoras y Presupuesto Publico: Una Mirada Desde El Genero (pp. 201-234). UNFPA.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Gutmann, Matthew (2005). 'Men-streaming' gender? Questions for gender and development policy on the 21st century. In Haugerud, Angelique, Edelman, Marc (Eds.), Anthropology of Development and Globalisation: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (pp. 240-249). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Female headship and the "feminisation of poverty". Poverty In Focus: an Online Bulletin of the Undp International Poverty Centre, 3(May), 3-5.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Dangerous equations? How women-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions. IDS Bulletin, 35(4), 19-26.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Moreno, Wagner (2004). "Desintegración familiar" o "transición familiar"? Perspectivas sobre cambio familiar en Guanacaste. Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia, 5(1-2: s).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Men in crisis? In Palmer, Steven, Molina, Iván (Eds.), The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture and Politics (pp. 350-357). Duke University Press.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Urban livelihoods, employment and gender. In Gwynne, Robert. N, Cristóbal, Kay (Eds.), Latin America Transformed : Globalization and Modernity (pp. 210-231). Hodder Arnold (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). WID vs GAD. In Forsyth, Tim (Ed.), Encyclopedia of International Development (pp. 760-761). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2004). Women-headed households. In Forsyth, Tim (Ed.), Encyclopedia of International Development (pp. 761-763). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2003). Nuevas contribuciones al análisis de la pobreza: desafíos metodológicos y conceptuales para entender la pobreza desde una perspectiva de género. (Serie mujer y desarrollo 47). United Nations.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2003). The ‘engendering’ of poverty analysis in developing regions: progress since the United Nations Decade For Women, and priorities for the future. (New Working Paper Series 11).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2003). New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. (Mujer y desarrollo series 47). United Nations.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2003). Families on the verge of breakdown? Views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. In Menjívar, Cecilia (Ed.), Through the Eyes of Women: Gender, Social Networks, Family and Structural Change in Latin America and the Caribbean (pp. 112-151). De Sitter Publications.
  • Chant, Sylvia, Gutmann, Matthew C. (2002). "Men-streaming" gender?: questions for gender and development policy in the 21st century. Progress in Development Studies, 2(4), 269-282. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993402ps041ra
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). Whose crisis? Public and popular reactions to family change in Costa Rica. In Abel, Christopher, Lewis, Colin M. (Eds.), Exclusion and Engagement: Social Policy in Latin America (pp. 349-377). Brookings Institution.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). Female employment in Puerto Vallarta: a case study. In Grewal, Inderpal, Kaplan, Caren (Eds.), An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (pp. 136-143). McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). ¿Crisis de la familia? ¿Crisis de la masculinidad? Reflexiones sobre las masculinidades, el trabajo y la familia en el noroeste de Costa Rica. In Rodriguez Sáenz, Eugenia (Ed.), Un Siglo De Luchas Femeninas En America Latina (pp. 177-196). Universidad de Costa Rica. Editorial.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). Families on the verge of breakdown? : views on contemporary trends in family life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of Developing Societies, 18(2-3), 109-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X0201800206
  • Chant, Sylvia, Craske, Nikki (2002). Gender in Latin America. Latin American Bureau.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). The informal sector and employment. In Desai, Vandana, Potter, Robert (Eds.), The Companion to Developmental Studies (pp. 206-215). Hodder Education (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia, McIlwaine, Cathy, Evans, Sally Lloyd (2001). Making a living: employment, livelihoods and the informal sector. In McIlwaine, Cathy, Willis, Katie (Eds.), Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (pp. 110-135). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2001). Men, women and household diversity. In McIlwaine, Cathy, Willis, Katie (Eds.), Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (pp. 26-60). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2001). Lone mothers in the nations of the South. In Smelser, Neil, Baltes, Paul (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 9046-9052). Elsevier (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2001). Female household headship, privation and power: challenging the 'feminisation of poverty' thesis. Princeton University.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2001). Hogares encabezados por mujeres ¿Los más pobres entre los pobres? Perspectives de México, Costa Rica y Filipinas. (Households headed by women: poorest of the poor? Perspectives from Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines). In De Villota, Paloma (Ed.), Globalizacion a Qué Precio? El Impacto En Las Mujares Del Norte y Del Sur (pp. 211-256). Icaria (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia (2001). Men in crisis? reflections on masculinities, work and family in northwest Costa Rica. In Jackson, Cecile (Ed.), Men at Work : Labour, Masculinities, Development (pp. 199-218). Frank Cass & Co..
  • Chant, Sylvia (2000). From "woman-blind" to "man-kind": should men have more space in gender and development? IDS Bulletin, 31(2), 7-17.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2000). Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. In Willis, Katie, Yeoh, Brenda (Eds.), Gender and Migration (pp. 46-63). Edward Elgar.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2000). Las unidades domesticas encabezadas por mujeres en Mexico y Costa Rica: perspectivas populares y globales sobre el tema del las madres solas (Women-headed households in Mexico and Costa Rica: grassroots and global perspectives on lone motherhood). In Gonzalez de la Rocha, Mercedes (Ed.), Divergencias Del Modelo Tradicional: Hogares De Jefatura Femenina En América Latina (pp. 97-102). Plaza y Valdés (Firm).
  • Chant, Sylvia, Gutmann, Matthew (2000). Mainstreaming men into gender and development: debates, reflections and experiences. Oxfam Publishing.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2000). Men in crisis? Reflections on masculinities, work and family in north-west Costa Rica. European Journal of Development Research, 12(2), 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/09578810008426772
  • Chant, Sylvia (1999). Informal sector activity in the third world city. In Pacione, Michael (Ed.), Applied Geography: Principles and Practice (pp. 509-527). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1999). Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities? In Afshar, Haleh, Barrientos, Stephanie (Eds.), Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World (pp. 91-130). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1999). El papel de la mujer en la recesión y re-estructuración económica en México y las Filipinas (The role of women in recession and economic restructuring in Mexico and the Philippines). Generos, 5(17), 25-28.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1999). Gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica: the case of Guanacaste. Geoforum, 22(3), 237-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7185(91)90010-N
  • Chant, Sylvia (1999). Population, migration, employment and gender. In Gwynne, Robert, Kay, Cristóbal (Eds.), Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity (pp. 226-271). Edward Arnold.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1998). Households, gender and rural-urban migration: reflections on linkages and considerations for policy. Environment and Urbanization, 10(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/095624789801000117
  • Chant, Sylvia (1997). Marginal (m)others: lone parents and female household headship in the Philippines. European Journal of Development Research, 9(2), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/09578819708426688
  • Chant, Sylvia (1997). Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In Visvanathan, Nalini, Duggan, Lynne, Nisonoff, Laurie, Wiegersma, Nan (Eds.), The Women, Gender and Development Reader (pp. 155-166). Zed Books.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1997). Gender aspects of urban economic growth and development. (Research paper 137). United Nations University.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1997). Género, urbanización y pobreza: el reto de los "hogares" (Gender, urbanisation and poverty: the challenge of 'the household'). Economia, Sociedad y Territorio, 1(2), 257-284.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1997). Solteras o 'de gegreso'? Las vias hacia la jefatura femenina en los hogares de Mexico y Costa Rica 1982-1994-(Single or return? Journeys in female household headship in Mexico and Costa Rica 1982-1994). In Rodríguez Sáenz, Eugenia (Ed.), entre Silencios y Voces: Género e Historia en América Central (1975-1990) (pp. 217-248). Centro Nacional para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Familia (Costa Rica) / Universidad de Costa Rica Editorial.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1997). Women-headed households: poorest of the poor? Perspectives from Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines. IDS Bulletin, 28(3), 26-48.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1996). Gender and tourism employment in Mexico and the Philippines. In Sinclair, M Thea (Ed.), Gender, Work and Tourism (pp. 120-179). Routledge.
  • Chant, Sylvia (1985). Single-parent families: choice or constraint? Development and Change, 16(4), 635-656. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1985.tb00227.x
    • International Relations
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). All day every day. LSE Research Festival 2015. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). Girl street vendors, Bakau. LSE Research Festival 2015. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2015). The apprentice, Kanifing. LSE Research Festival 2015. London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
    • LSE
  • Chant, Sylvia (2019). Cell seller, Gambia.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2018). Gambian ‘vous’. LSE Research Festival 2018. London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2003). Female household headship and the feminisation of poverty : facts, fictions and forward strategies. (New Working Paper Series 9). Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Chant, Sylvia (2002). Researching gender, families and households in Latin America: from the 20th into the 21st century. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21(4), 545-575. https://doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00059
  • Chant, Sylvia, Campling, Jo (1997). Women-headed households: diversity and dynamics in the developing world. Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Management
  • Chant, Sylvia (2008). Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns. In Corbridge, Stuart (Ed.), Development - Critical Essays in Human Geography (pp. 111-132). Ashgate Dartmouth.
    • Public Policy Group
  • Carrera, Leandro N., Chant, Sylvia, Cherti, Myriam (2012). Evidence from New Zealand suggests that the government’s plan for auto-enrolment into workplace pensions may substantially affect participation rates and total savings.
    • Sociology
  • Chant, Sylvia, Klett-Davies, Martina, Ramalho, Jordana (2017). Challenges and potential solutions for adolescent girls in urban settings: a rapid evidence review. Overseas Development Institute. https://doi.org/10.21953/LSE.DNZ25B5X37R8
  • Chant, Sylvia, Klett-Davies, Martina, Ramalho, Jordana (2017). Challenges and potential solutions for adolescent girls in urban settings: a rapid evidence review: annexes. Overseas Development Institute. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.ekk9kr6ooygt