Feminist futures : reimagining women, culture and development /: reimagining women, culture and development. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi.
• Editors: Bhavnani, Kum-Kum; Foran, John; Kurian, Priya A; Munshi, Debashish
• Contents: An introduction to women, culture and development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian -- Visions one. Maria's stories / Maria Ofelia Navarrete ; The woof and the warp / Luisa Valenzuela ; Consider the problem of privatization / Anna Tsing -- Part one : Sexuality and the gendered body. More "tragedies" in out-of-the-way places : oceanic interpretations of another scale / Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem ; 'Revolution with a woman's face'? Family norms, constitutional reform and the politics of redistribution in post/neoliberal Ecuador / Amy Lind ; Claiming the state : revisiting women's reproductive identity in India's development policy / Rachel Simon-Kumar ; Abortion and African culture : a case study of Kenya / Jane Wambui Njagi ; Bodies and choices : African matriarchs and Mammy Water / Ifi Amadiume -- Visions two. Empowerment : snakes and ladders / Jan Nederveen Pieterse ; Gendered sexualities and lived experience : revisiting the case of gay sexuality in women, culture and development / Dana Collins ; Revolutionary women's struggle and leadership : building local political power in rural areas in the age of neoliberal globalization / Peter Chua ; 'What should I say about a dream?' : reflections on adolescent girls, agency and citizenship / Gauri Nandedkar -- Part two : Environment, technology, science. New Lenses with limited vision : shell scenarios, science fiction, storytelling wars / David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian ; Development nationalism : science, religion, and the quest for a modern India / Banu Subramaniam ; What would Rachel say? / Joni Seager ; Negotiating human-nature boundaries, cultural hierarchies and masculinist paradigms of development studies / Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi ; The intersection of women, culture and development: conversations about visions for the future, take two / Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt -- Visions three. Alternatives to development : of love, dreams, and revolution / John Foran ; Dreams and process in development theory and practice / Light Carruyo ; The subjective side of development : sources of well-bring, resources for struggle / Linda Klouzal -- Part three : The cultural politics of representation. Of rural mothers, urban whores and working daughters : women and the critique of neocolonial development in Taiwan's nativist literature / Ming-yan Lai ; Revisiting the mostaz'af and the mostakbar / Minoo Moallem ; Mariama Bâ's So long a letter : 'women, culture and development' from a Francophone or postcolonial perspective / Anjali Prabhu ; The precarious middle class : gender, risk and mobility in the new Indian economy / Raka Ray -- Visions four. An antipodean take on gender, culture and development co-operation / Susanne Schech ; On activist scholarship and women, culture and development / Julie Shayne ; Women, traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable development / Sangion Appiee Tiu ; Reimagining climate justice : what the world needs now is love, hope ... and you / John Foran -- Postscript. A conversation about the future of women, culture and development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 499 pages), digital, EPUB
• Subjects: 305.42; Feminism; Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies; Electronic books; Women -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies; Electronic books; Feminism; Sex role; Women -- Social conditions; Electronic books; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783606382; 9781783606412
• Related ISBNs: 178360638X; 178360641X; 9781783606405; 9781783606429
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-478) and index.; Note: Description based on online resource.
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