Under development : gender /

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...

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Other Authors: Verschuur, Christine, Guérin, Isabelle, Guétat-Bernard, Hélène
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Gender, development and social change.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.