Women, international development, and politics : the bureaucratic mire /

In the seven years since the first edition of this book, global attention has focused on some remarkable transitions to democracy on different continents. Unfortunately, those transitions have often failed to improve the situation of women, and democratic practices have not included women in governm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Staudt, Kathleen A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.
Edición:Updated and expanded edition.
Colección:Women in the political economy.
Temas:
Women in development.
Women > Government policy.
Women > Political activity.
Femmes dans le développement.
Femmes > Politique gouvernementale.
Femmes > Activité politique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women > Government policy
Women in development
Women > Political activity
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender politics in bureaucracy : theoretical issues in comparative perspective / Kathleen Staudt
  • Who needs [sex] when you can have [gender]? : conflicting discourses on gender at Beijing / Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz
  • Contradictions of a 'women's space' in a male-dominant sptate : the political role of the Commissions on the Status of Women in postauthoritarian Brazil / Sonia E. Alvarez
  • Hierarchy and class in women's organizations : a case from northern Mexico / Gay Young
  • Can an aid bureaucracy empower women? / Karin Himmelstrand
  • The adaptability of international development agencies : the response of the World Bank to women in development / Nuket Kardam
  • The Inter-American Foundation and gender issues : a feminist view / Sally W. Yudelman
  • The feminist agenda in population private voluntary organizations / Judith Helzner and Bonnie Shepard
  • The Malawi case : enclave politics, core resistance, and 'Nkhoswe No. 1' / David Hirschmann
  • Farming women, public policy, and the Women's Ministry : a case study from Cameroon / Barbara Lewis
  • Tough row to hoe : women in Nicaragua's agricultural cooperatives / Rural Women's Research Team, Center for the Investigation and Study of Agrarian Reform (CIERA)
  • Women in FAO projects : cases from Asia, the Near East, and Africa / Alice Carloni
  • Getting to the Third World : agencies as gatekeepers / Katherine Jensen
  • Planning social change : a misdirected vision / Cathy Small
  • Maintaining women and development : four agency approaches / Rounaq Jahan
  • Strategies for the future / Kathleen Staudt and Kristen Timothy.

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