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Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice : Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization /

Collection of essays on issues of women and development, attempting to bridge theory and practice in the post-9/11 era to reflect debates in various realms, from the environment, land rights, and identity to information technology, employment, and poverty.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Summerfield, Gale, 1948- (Editor ), Jaquette, Jane S., 1942- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jane Jaquette and Gale Summerfield
  • Women, gender, and development / Jane Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt
  • Mainstreaming gender in international organizations / Elisabeth Prügl and Audrey Lustgarten
  • From "home economics" to "microfinance" : gender rhetoric and bureaucratic resistance / David Hirschmann
  • Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty / Sylvia Chant
  • What is justice? : indigenous women in Andean development projects / Maruja Barrig
  • Gender equity and rural land reform in China / Gale Summerfield
  • Unequal rights : women and property / Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo
  • On loan from home : women's participation in formulating human settlements policies / Faranak Miraftab
  • In theory and in practice : women creating better accounts of the world / Louise Fortmann
  • Women's work : the kitchen kills more than the sword / Kirk R. Smith
  • Women's movements in the globalizing world : the case of Thailand / Amara Pongsapich
  • T-shirts to web links : women connect! communications capacity-building with women's NGOs / Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury, and Muadi Mukenge
  • Empowerment just happened : the unexpected expansion of women's organizations / Irene Tinker.