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Format: 1 online resource (262 p.)

ISBN: 1-350-22008-6 , 1-84813-669-2 , 9786611215958 , 1-281-21595-3 , 1-84813-133-X

Content: This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism?s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presente.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline / , Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions / , Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil / , Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme / , Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development / , 'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective / , Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies / , Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming / , Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? / , Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business / , Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts / , SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? / , The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements / , Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights / , Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy / , Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development / , The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment / , Also published in print. , English

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DOI: 10.5040/9781350220089

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Format: 1 online resource (viii, 173 pages)

ISBN: 9781444306675 , 1444306677 , 1405169370 , 9781405169370

Series Statement: Development and change book series

Note: Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead -- A bigger piece of a very small pie : intrahousehold resource allocation and poverty reduction in Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin -- The construction of the myth of survival / Mercedes González de la Rocha -- Earth mother myths and other ecofeminist fables : how a strategic notion rose and fell / Melissa Leach -- Political cleaners : women as the new anti-corruption force? / Anne Marie Goetz -- Resolving risk? marriage and creative conjugality / Cecile Jackson -- Feminism, gender, and women's peace activism / Judy El-Bushra -- Myths to live by? female solidarity and female autonomy reconsidered / Andrea Cornwall.

Additional Edition: Print version: Gender myths and feminist fables. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007

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DOI: 10.1002/9781444306675

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ISSN: 0144-686X

In: Ageing & society, Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981, 32(2012), 2, Seite 261-280, 0144-686X

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In: year:2012

In: number:2

In: pages:261-280

Language: English

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Format: viii, 173 p.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Development and change book series

Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)

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ISBN: 9781350220089

Content: 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.

Content: This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism?s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presente

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Feminisms in development London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.5040/9781350220089

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Format: 1 online resource (262 p.)

ISBN: 1-350-22008-6 , 1-84813-669-2 , 9786611215958 , 1-281-21595-3 , 1-84813-133-X

Content: This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism?s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presente.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline / , Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions / , Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil / , Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme / , Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development / , 'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective / , Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies / , Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming / , Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? / , Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business / , Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts / , SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? / , The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements / , Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights / , Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy / , Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development / , The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment / , Also published in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-84277-818-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-84277-819-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.5040/9781350220089