ISBN:
9781405169370
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (184 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Development and Change Special Issues
Series Statement:
Development and Change Special Issues Ser
Series Statement:
Development and change book series
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender Myths and Feminist Fables : The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Feminism ; Political aspects
;
Feminist theory
;
Sex role ; Sociological aspects
;
Women in development
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables': women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to surviveExplores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practiceTraces t
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann WhiteheadA bigger piece of a very small pie : intrahousehold resource allocation and poverty reduction in Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin -- The construction of the myth of survival / Mercedes González de la Rocha -- Earth mother myths and other ecofeminist fables : how a strategic notion rose and fell / Melissa Leach -- Political cleaners : women as the new anti-corruption force? / Anne Marie Goetz -- Resolving risk? marriage and creative conjugality / Cecile Jackson -- Feminism, gender, and women's peace activism / Judy El-Bushra -- Myths to live by? female solidarity and female autonomy reconsidered / Andrea Cornwall.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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