ISBN:
9781848136694
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed
Paralleltitel:
Print version Cornwall, Andrea Feminisms in Development : Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges
DDC:
305.42
Schlagwort(e):
Women in development
Kurzfassung:
This book explores the contested relationship between feminisms and development. It reflects on the uneasy gains made by feminist efforts to bring 'gender' into development, and on the challenges for reasserting feminist engagement with development as a political project
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- About the book -- About the editors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges -- Part one: The struggle over interpretation -- 2. Gender myths that instrumentalize women: a view from the Indian front line -- 3. Dangerous equations? How female-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions -- 4. Back to women? Translations, resignifications and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil -- 5. Battles over booklets: gender myths in the British aid programme -- 6. Not very poor, powerless or pregnant: the African woman forgotten by development -- 7. 'Streetwalkers show the way': reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective -- Part two: Institutionalizing gender in development -- 8. Gender, myth and fable: the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies -- 9. Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts: some reflections on gender mainstreaming -- 10. Gender mainstreaming: what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? -- 11. Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away: feminists marooned in the development business -- 12. Critical connections: feminist studies in African contexts -- 13. SWApping gender: from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? -- Part three: Looking to the future: challenges for feminist engagement -- 14. The NGO-ization of Arab women's movements -- 15. Political fiction meets gender myth: post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratization' and women's rights -- 16. Reassessing paid work and women's empowerment: lessons from the global economy -- 17. Announcing a new dawn prematurely? Human rights feminists and the rights-based approaches to development
Kurzfassung:
18. The chimera of success: gender ennui and the changed international policy environment -- Notes on contributors -- Index
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