ISBN:
9781137356819
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (342 p)
Series Statement:
Gender, Development and Social Change
Series Statement:
Gender, Development and Social Change Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Under Development: Gender
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Sex role
;
Women in development
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction : Gender, a NecessaryTool of Analysis for Social Change; Part I Disciplines; 1 A History of Development Througha Gender Prism: Feminist andDecolonial Perspectives; 2 Feminist Anthropology MeetsDevelopment; 3 Gender and Demography:A Fertile Combination; 4 The Sociologist and the "PoorThird World Woman", or Howan Approach Focusing on GenderRelations Has Helped Sociology ofDevelopment; 5 Feminist Development Economics:An Institutional Approach toHousehold Analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Feminist Legal Theory as anIntervention in DevelopmentStudies7 Feminist Interventions inInternational Relations; Part II Specific Issues; 8 Labour, Family and Agriculture:Gender and Development Issues,a North-South Perspective; 9 The Seed and the Fertile Soil:Re-examining the Migration-Development Nexus throughthe Lens of Gender; 10 Ambivalent Engagements,Paradoxical Effects: Latin AmericanFeminist and Women's Movementsand/in/against Development; 11 Neoliberal Capitalism: AnAlly for Women? Materialistand Imbricationist FeministPerspectives
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Neoliberalism and the GlobalEconomic Crisis: a View fromFeminist Economics13 Solidarity Economy Revisited inthe Light of Gender : A Tool forSocial Change or Reproducing theSubordination of Women?; 14 Conclusion: Body Politics and theMaking and Unmaking of Genderand Development; Index
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