UID:
almafu_9959236381302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (262 p.)
ISBN:
9786611215958
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9781350220089
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1350220086
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9781848136694
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1848136692
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9781281215956
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1281215953
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9781848131330
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184813133X
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline /
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Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions /
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Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil /
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Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme /
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Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development /
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'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective /
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Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies /
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Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming /
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Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? /
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Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business /
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Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts /
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SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? /
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The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements /
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Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights /
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Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy /
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Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development /
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The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment /
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Also published in print.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781842778180
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ISBN 1842778188
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ISBN 9781842778197
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ISBN 1842778196
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781350220089
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