Gender

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Farmer, Paul, Margaret Connors, and Janie Simmons. 1996. Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.

Authors: Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, Janie Simmons

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“Moving beyond a simple biomedical model, this book compels us to view AIDS in women in a wholly new way, as an inescapable even in lives devalued by the forces of poverty, racism and sexism. This extraordinary multidisciplinary effort should serve as the guidebook for those who want to understand how AIDS has become a leading killer of young women in a mere decade.”—Deborah Cotton, M.D.

This second edition of the groundbreaking Women, Poverty and AIDS reviews the massive epidemic sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa and many other parts of the Third World. As Dr. Joia Mukherjee reveals, the unfolding tragedy is a double one: drugs could be saving lives but are made unavailable while millions die. (Amazon)

Topics: Economies, Poverty, Gender, Women, Health, HIV/AIDS, Political Economies, Race, Violence

Year: 1996

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Enloe, Cynthia. 1993. The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Author: Cynthia Enloe

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Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism at the end of the twentieth century.

In the gray dawn of this new era, Enloe finds that the politics of sexuality have already shifted irrevocably. Women glimpse the possibilities of democratization and demilitarization within what is still a largely patriarchal world. New opportunities for greater freedom are seen in emerging social movements—gays fighting for their place in the American military, Filipina servants rallying for their rights in Saudi Arabia, Danish women organizing against the European Community's Maastricht treaty. Enloe also documents the ongoing assaults against women as newly emerging nationalist movements serve to reestablish the privileges of masculinity.

The voices of real women are heard in this book. They reach across cultures, showing the interconnections between military networks, jobs, domestic life, and international politics. The Morning After will spark new ways of thinking about the complexities of the post-Cold War period, and it will bring contemporary sexual politics into the clear light of day as no other book has done. (University of California Press)

Topics: Democracy / Democratization, Gender, Women, Masculinity/ies, Gender Roles, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Militarism, Political Economies, Post-Conflict, Sexuality

Year: 1993

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Elson, Diane. 2002. “Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Neo‐Liberal Economic Policies.” In Gender Justice, Development, and Rights, edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi, 78–114. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0199256454.003.0003.

Author: Diane Elson

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This chapter analyses the links between neo-liberal economic policies and women’s substantive enjoyment of human rights. It examines the association between two different discourses: human rights and economic efficiency, and the experience of women, particularly poor women in the era of neo-liberal economic policies. Alternative approaches to economic policy that would promote social justice for poor women are considered.

Keywords: gender justice, social justice, poor women, human rights, social rights, neo-liberal economic policies

Topics: Economies, Gender, Political Economies, Rights, Human Rights, Women's Rights

Year: 2002

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Cornwall, Andrea, Jerker Edström, and Alan Greig, eds. 2011. Men and Development: Politicising Masculinities. New York: Zed Books.

Authors: Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström, Alan Greig

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Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men's and women's lives. The book calls for renewed engagement in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle the structural barriers to gender equality, and to mobilize men to build new alliances with women's movements and other movements for social and gender justice. (Amazon)

Topics: Development, Gender, Men, Masculinity/ies, Political Economies

Year: 2011

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Cook, Joanne, Jennifer Roberts, and Georgina Waylen. 2000. Towards A Gendered Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Authors: Joanne Cook, Jennifer Roberts, Georgina Waylen

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This collection examines how a gendered approach to political economy can help us understand the inherently gendered structures that characterize our society, and can provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of gendered political economy--what it is, where it is, and perhaps most importantly, how it should develop. (Amazon)

Topics: Gender, Political Economies

Year: 2000

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Chant, Sylvia. 2007. Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the Feminisation of Poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Chelteham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Author: Sylvia Chant

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The 'feminisation of poverty' is widely viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, the construct is only weakly substantiated. Its over-emphasis on income and on female household headship also conveys little of the contemporary complexities of gendered disadvantage. (Amazon)

Topics: Development, Economies, Poverty, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Households, Political Economies Regions: Africa, Americas, Asia

Year: 2007

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Chant, Sylvia, and Caroline Sweetman. 2012. “Fixing Women or Fixing the World? ‘Smart Economics’, Efficiency Approaches, and Gender Equality in Development.” Gender & Development 20 (3): 517–29. doi:10.1080/13552074.2012.731812.

Authors: Sylvia Chant, Caroline Sweetman

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This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the feminist goal of removing the structural discrimination which women face as a gendered constituency, and consider the implications for feminists in development if they adopt smart economics-speak and work in coalition with individuals and organisations who have fundamentally different aims. This has attractions in strategic terms, but risks recreating the very problems gender and development seeks to transform.

Keywords: smart economics, efficiency, feminist economics, empowerment, gender equality, World Bank

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Topics: Development, Economies, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Girls, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, International Financial Institutions, Political Economies

Year: 2012

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Chant, Sylvia. 2012. “The Disappearing of ‘Smart Economics’? The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality: Some Concerns about the Preparatory Process and the Prospects for Paradigm Change.” Global Social Policy 12 (2): 198–218. doi:10.1177/1468018112443674.

Author: Sylvia Chant

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This article draws on personal involvement in the World Bank’s consultation with academic ‘stakeholders’ for the World Development Report 2012 (WDR 2012) on Gender Equality and Development. The article questions the extent to which ‘smart economics’, which was the zeitgeist of the Bank’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2007–2010, shows signs of being replaced by a more ‘gender-sensitive’ approach in which women’s rights (rather than responsibilities) are to the fore. While the main focus of the article centres on the preparatory process for WDR 2012, brief reference is also made to the evolution and spread of ‘smart economics’ thinking, the experience of World Bank consultation, and GAP’s successor – Applying GAP Lessons: A Three-Year Road Map for Gender Mainstreaming (2010–2013).

Keywords: gender and development (GAD), gender equality, smart economics, stakeholder consultation, World Bank, World Development Report 2012

Topics: Economies, Gender, Women, Gender Mainstreaming, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, International Financial Institutions, Political Economies

Year: 2012

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Çağatay, Nilüfer, and Korkuk Ertürk. 2004. “Gender and Globalization: A Macroeconomic Perspective.” Working Paper No. 19, Policy Integration Department, World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, International Labour Office, Geneva.

Authors: Nilüfer Çağatay, Korkuk Ertürk

Topics: Economies, Gender, Globalization, Political Economies

Year: 2004

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Nash, June C. 1999. "The Transformation of Gender Roles in Migration." Working Paper 24, Chicano/Latino Research Center, Merrill College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.

Author: June C. Nash

Topics: Class, Displacement & Migration, Migration, Ethnicity, Gender, Gender Roles, Gendered Power Relations, Households, Livelihoods, Race

Year: 1999