Book: Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of our colleague Professor Sabina Faiz Rashid’s book Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows. Sabina is the Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty at BRAC’s James P Grant School of Public Health and ARISE PI in Bangladesh, and has written about the experiences of people living in informal settlements.

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides compelling and comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city and the injustices they face.

Through comprehensive accounts spanning two distinct periods (2002-2003 and 2020-2022), Sabina sheds light on the enduring poverty, injustices and health hardships experienced by those living on the margins of society, and shows that despite recent improvements in employment opportunities and greater mobility for young women, their lives reflect ongoing challenges reminiscent of those faced two decades earlier.

This book will appeal to students, academics, and researchers in the fields of Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences, as well as professionals engaged in urban health and poverty-related work.

Order Sabina’s book Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows  (routledge.com) now.