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Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Yet, without gender it is impossible to understand development and the development of under-development. This collection brings together specialists from different parts of the world and various disciplines, who look at various key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism. Gender, as an expression of power, is an indispensable analytical category for social change. It reveals invisible realities and socio-political struggles, giving voice to the subaltern. It contributes to renewing methods, deconstruct and build innovative categories and concepts, challenging dominant paradigms. Thinking about gender can raise new controversies and encourage discussions on policy changes. While the current global crisis and growing inequalities urge us to find alternatives to globalized capitalism, feminist theory offers a fresh way to think and achieve social change.
Introduction: Gender, a necessary tool of analysis for social change / Isabelle Guerin, Helene Guetat-Bernard and Chistine Verschuur -- Part I: Disciplines -- A history of development through a gender prism: Feminist and decolonial perspectives / Christine Verschuur -- Feminist anthropology meets development / Fenneke Reysoo -- Gender and demography: A fertile combination / Agnes Adjamagbo and Therese Locoh -- The sociologist and the "poor third world woman", or how an approach focusing on gender relations has helped sociology of development / Blandine Destremau and Bruna Lautier -- Feminist development economics: An institutional approach to household analysis / Olasunbo Odebode and Irene van Staveren -- Feminist legal theory as an intervention in development studies / Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra -- Feminist interventions in international relations / Elisabeth Prugl -- Part II: Specific issues -- Labour, family and agriculture: Gender and development issues, a North-South perspective / Helene Guetat-Bernard -- The seed and the fertile soil: Re-examining the migration-development Nexus through the lens of gender / Christine Catarino and Laura Oso -- Ambivalent engagements, paradoxical effects: Latin America feminist and women's movements and/in/against development / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Neoliberal capitalism: An ally for women? Materialist and imbricationist feminist perspectives / Jules Falquet -- Neoliberalism and the global economic crisis: A view from feminist economics / Lourdes Beneria -- Solidarity economy revisited in the light of gender: A tool for social change or reproducing the subordination of women? / Isabelle Guerin and Miriam Nobre -- Conclusion: Body politics and the making and unmaking of gender and development / Wendy Harcourt.
edited by Christine Verschuur, Isabelle Guérin and Hélène Guétat-Bernard.
Includes bibliographical references and index.