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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Feminisms in development. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (OCoLC)608153573 Online version: Feminisms in development. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (OCoLC)632036748 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrea Cornwall; Elizabeth Harrison; Ann Whitehead |
| ISBN: | 1842778196 9781842778197 1842778188 9781842778180 |
| OCLC Number: | 71285411 |
| Description: | 253 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline / Srilatha Batliwala and Deepa Dhanraj -- Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions / Sylvia Chant -- Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil / Cecilia Sardenberg -- Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme / Rosalind Eyben -- Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development / Everjoice Win -- 'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective / Nandinee Bandyopadhyay with Swapna Gayen [and others] -- Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies / Hilary Standing -- Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming / Ramya Subrahmanian -- Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? / Prudence Woodford-Berger -- Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business / Maitrayee Mukhopadhay -- Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts / Amina Mama -- SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? / Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler -- The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements / Islah Jad -- Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy / Ruth Pearson -- Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development / Dzodzi Tsikata -- The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment / Maxine Molyneux. |
| Responsibility: | Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison & Ann Whitehead, editors. |
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'It is honest, level-headed, yet deeply committed to core feminist values and principles. Its editors and authors must be commended for their courage and their persistence with the difficult questions.'Gita Sen'A lively and self-critical set of essays on the perils and potentials of feminist engagements with the structures of power in the development field, by those who have been there.'Naila Kabeer'Using an international perspective, it provides indispensable insights for everyone working on development, activists and women's movements around the world.'Pinar Ilkkaracan'Highly recommended to researchers, teachers, and activists in all fields of development study and practice.'Population and Development Review'Their work is significant for GAD (Gender and Development) practitioners and should be a mandatory read.'Wendy Miller, Lilith'The book is exemplar in the field of feminist writing ... pioneering in its insights on the trajectory of gender and development debates and policy choices that have resulted from feminist engagement. The conceptual breadth of this work is impressive as it seamlessly covers multiple topics that are central to gender and development debates ... A compelling read.'Feminist Economics Read more...
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- Women in development.
- Feminist theory.
- Femmes dans le développement.
- Théorie féministe.
- Féminisme.
- Sexe.
- Conditions économiques.
- Conditions sociales.
- Développement économique.
- Pays en développement.
- Sekseverschillen.
- Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling.
- Ontwikkelingspolitiek.
- Ontwikkelingslanden.
- Feminismus
- Entwicklungsländer
- Gender myths
- Development policy
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