ISBN:
9781848135475
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Harcourt, Wendy Body Politics in Development : Critical Debates in Gender and Development
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books. -- local
;
Women in development
;
Women's rights
Abstract:
Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engaging book reveals how once-tabooed issues, such as rape, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive rights, have emerged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle
Abstract:
About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Invisible Bodies -- Notes -- Body Politics in Numbers 1 -- 1 | What is Body Politics? -- Setting the scene -- Gender -- Feminism -- Heteronormativity -- Going beyond essentialism -- Bodies as a source of oppression and power -- Rewriting the truths of the body -- Colonialism, racism and feminism -- Foucauldian understandings of body, knowledge and power -- Bodies, science and technology -- Bodies and power -- Women and the politics of place -- Body politics in gender and development -- Gender and development as an evolving strategy -- Civil society as an agent in development -- The 1990s UN conferences -- Beijing 1995 -- Body politics in the new social movements -- The Feminist Dialogues -- Body politics as counter-culture -- Feminist body politics at the World Social Forum -- Going beyond the rhetoric -- Notes -- Body Politics in Numbers 2 -- 2 | Reproductive Bodies -- Population and development: four entry points -- Biopolitics and population and development -- Contraception -- Building the Cairo Agenda -- Consensus or compromise? -- Body politics in action -- The unravelling of Cairo -- Testing Cairo -- Cairo and abortion -- The Millennium Development Goals and maternal health -- Engaging in the MDG process -- Figure 1 'All women have the right to healthy motherhood' -- Public-private partnerships -- Cairo dilemmas -- The Malthus factor -- Overpopulation fears -- Biopolitics and the Cairo Agenda -- Beyond maternity -- Notes -- Body Politics in Numbers 3 -- 3 | Productive and Caring Bodies -- Toiling female bodies -- Three approaches to production and care -- Women and work: changing trends -- Economic restructuring and the feminization of labour -- Negotiating work and family -- Markings on the body and in the family -- Who cares? Feminist analysis of the care economy
Abstract:
Paid and unpaid care work -- Valuing care work -- Care gain, care drain: migrant women and care work -- The global care chain -- Race, class and gender tensions -- Sharing paid and non-paid care work -- Women and the politics of place -- Community economies -- From local to global alternatives -- Women's issues in alternative movements -- Feminist alternatives -- Challenging the stereotypes of care work -- Revaluing care -- Notes -- Body Politics in Numbers 4 -- 4 | Violated Bodies -- Gender-based violence -- Two approaches -- Breaking the silence -- Rape as a public issue -- Mobilizing against gender-based violence -- The V word -- Sexual and gender-based violence as a health issue -- Gender-based violence campaigns -- Million Women Rise -- Filmstar ploys -- Engaging with boys and men -- Violence and masculinity -- War, conflict, and sexual and gender-based violence in development -- Women's groups responding to survivors' needs -- Gender justice in modern wars -- Going beyond the numbers -- War on terror -- Abu Ghraib -- Rethinking bodily rights -- A new global order -- Fundamentalism -- Body politics and gender-based violence in Gujarat, 2002 -- Women confronting fundamentalism -- Feminism, racism and difference -- Notes -- Body Politics in Numbers 5 -- 5 | Sexualized Bodies -- Sexual anxieties -- Mad, bad and dangerous to know -- Four debates on sexuality -- The globalized sexualized 'other' -- Questioning my own hegemonic gaze -- Sarah Bartmann: from victim to nation builder -- Commercial sex and the 'trafficking' debate -- Leaving home for sex -- Sex work in Bangladesh -- Body politics and HIV and AIDS -- HIV and AIDS and George W. Bush -- HIV and AIDS and new approaches to sexual rights in development -- The Pleasure Project -- Sex, politics and erotic justice -- Recasting desire -- Personal is political -- Notes -- Body Politics in Numbers 6
Abstract:
6 | Techno-Bodies -- Bodies in the cyberworld -- Haraway on technoscience -- Corporealization -- The floating foetus and the blue Earth -- Feminism and technoscience -- Technoscience in our lives and bodies -- The Human Genome Project -- Synthetic biology -- Biosecurity? -- Biomedical reproductive technologies and the commercialization of women's bodies -- The closure of the body commons -- New techno-eugenics -- Disability rights -- Technoscience solutions for development -- Technoscience in agriculture -- Technoscience and manufacture -- Technomedicine -- Biopiracy -- Technoscience and ethics -- Feminist responses -- Notes -- Body Politics in Numbers 7 -- Conclusion: Empowering Bodies -- Body politics and FGM -- Still asking questions -- Challenges to gender and development -- Changing gender and development -- Note -- References -- Index
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