ISBN:
9780816665396
,
9780816665402
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxiv, 292 p S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Developing Partnerships : Gender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank
DDC:
305.3098
Keywords:
World Bank
;
Women in development
;
Sex role Government policy
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
A critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations. By combining analysis of documents produced and sponsored by the World Bank with interviews of World Bank staffers and case studies, Kate Bedford presents a detailed examination of gender and sexuality in the policies of the world's most influential development institution
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Working Women, Caring Men, and the Family Bank: Ideal Gender Relations after the Washington Consensus; 2. The Model Region Remodels Partnerships: The Politics of Gender Research in Latin America and the Caribbean; 3. Forging Partnerships, Sidelining Child Care: How Ecuadorian Femocrats Navigate Institutional Constraints in World Bank Gender Policy; 4. Roses Mean Love: Export Promotion and the Restructuring of Intimacy in Ecuador; 5. Cultures of Saving and Loving: Ethnodevelopment, Gender, and Heteronormativity in PRODEPINE
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Holding It Together: Family Strengthening in ArgentinaConclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
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