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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| 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.