Feminisms in development : contradictions, contestations and challenges /: contradictions, contestations and challenges. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison & Ann Whitehead, editors.
• Other Names: Cornwall, Andrea, 1963-; Harrison, Elizabeth, 1963-; Whitehead, Ann, 1946-
• Contents: Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline /Srilatha Batliwala and Deepa Dhanraj -- Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions /Sylvia Chant -- Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil /Cecilia Sardenberg -- Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme /Rosalind Eyben -- Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development /Everjoice Win -- 'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective /Nandinee Bandyopadhyay with Swapna Gayen [and others] -- Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies /Hilary Standing -- Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming /Ramya Subrahmanian -- Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? /Prudence Woodford-Berger -- Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business /Maitrayee Mukhopadhay -- Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts /Amina Mama -- SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? /Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler -- The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements /Islah Jad -- Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights /Deniz Kandiyoti -- Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy /Ruth Pearson -- Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development /Dzodzi Tsikata -- The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment /Maxine Molyneux.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (262 pages)
• Subjects: 305.4209172/4; Women in development; Feminist theory; Femmes dans le développement; Théorie féministe; Gender studies: women; Féminisme; Sexe; Conditions économiques; Conditions sociales; Développement économique; Pays en développement; Feminist theory; Women in development; Feminismus; Sekseverschillen; Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling; Ontwikkelingspolitiek; Entwicklungsländer; Ontwikkelingslanden; Electronic books; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848136694; 1848136692
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.