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Feminisms in development : contradictions, contestations and challenges /
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 ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York : New York :
Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.