Citation:
Cornwall, Andrea, Elizabeth Harrison, and Ann Whitehead. 2007. Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges. Zed Books.
Authors: Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Anna Whitehead
Annotation:
Summary:
The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This text examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement (Summary from WorldCat).
Table of Contents:
1. Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline
Srilatha Batliwala and Deepa Dhanraj
2. Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions
Sylvia Chant
3. Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil
Cecilia Sardenberg
4. Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme
Rosalind Eyben
5. Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development
Everjoice Win
6. 'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective
Nandinee Bandyopadhyay with Swapna Gayen [and others]
7. Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies
Hilary Standing
8. Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming
Ramya Subrahmanian
9. Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it?
Prudence Woodford-Berger
10. Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business
Maitrayee Mukhopadhay
11. Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts
Amina Mama
12. SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security?
Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler
13. The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements
Islah Jad
14. Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights
Deniz Kandiyoti
15. Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy
Ruth Pearson
16. Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development
Dzodzi Tsikata
17. The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment
Maxine Molyneux.
Topics: Development, Economies, Poverty, Gender Mainstreaming, Households, International Financial Institutions, NGOs Regions: Africa, MENA, Americas, South America, Asia, South Asia, Europe, Western Europe Countries: Brazil, India, United Kingdom
Year: 2007