Women, international development, and politics : the bureaucratic mire /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Staudt, Kathleen A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.
Edition:Updated and expanded ed.
Series:Women in the political economy.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Gender politics in bureaucracy: theoretical issues in comparative perspective / Kathleen Staudt
  • Who needs [sex] when you can have [gender]? conflicting discourses on gender at Beijing / Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz
  • Contradictions of a "women's space" in a male-dominant state: the political role of the commissions on the status of women in postauthoritarian Brazil / Sonia E. Alvarez
  • Hierarchy and class in women's organizations: a case from Northern Mexico / Gay Young
  • Can an aid bureaucracy empower women? / Karin Himmelstrand
  • The adaptability of international development agencies: the response of the World Bank to women in development / Nüket Kardam
  • The Inter-American Foundation and gender issues: a feminist view / Sally W. Yudelman
  • The feminist agenda in population private voluntary organizations / Judith Helzner and Bonnie Shepard
  • The Malawi case: enclave politics, core resistance, and "nkhoswe no. 1" / David Hirschmann
  • Farming women, public policy, and the women's ministry: a case study from Cameroon / Barbara Lewis
  • Tough row to how: women in Nicaragua's agricultural cooperatives / Rural Women's Research Team, Center for the Investigation and Study of Agrarian Reform (CIERA)
  • Women in FAO projects: cases from Asia, the Near East, and Africa / Alice Carloni
  • Getting to the Third World: agencies as gatekeepers / Katherine Jensen
  • Planning social change: a misdirected vision / Cathy Small
  • Mainstreaming women and development: four agency approaches / Rounaq Jahan.