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1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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9781350220089
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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.
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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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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Feminisms in development London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Language:
English
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350220089
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