Cornwall / Harrison / Whitehead Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0668-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0668-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers whoexamine the struggles for interpretive power which underliesinternational development.
* Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender anddevelopment research are so often turned into 'gendermyths' and 'feminist fables': women are morelikely to care for the environment; are better at working together;are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity tosurvive
* Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations ofgender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded indevelopment policy and practice
* Traces the ways in which language and images of development arerelated to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politicsof knowledge production
* Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not onlyimportant for our own sake, but also for the implications they havefor women's lives worldwide
* An informed analysis of how 'gender' has beentransformed in its transfer into development policy and how manyauthors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlierwork
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for InterpretivePower in Gender and Development (Andrea Cornwall, ElizabethHarrison and Ann Whitehead).
2. A Bigger Piece of a Very Small Pie: Intrahousehold ResourceAllocation and Poverty Reduction in Africa (BridgetO'Laughlin).
3. The Construction of the Myth of Survival (MercedesGonzález de la Rocha).
4. Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How aStrategic Notion Rose and Fell (Melissa Leach).
5. Political Cleaners: Women as the New Anti-Corruption Force?(Anne Marie Goetz).
6. Resolving Risk? Marriage and Creative Conjugality (CecileJackson).
7. Feminism, Gender, and Women's Peace Activism (JudyEl-Bushra).
8. Myths To Live By? Female Solidarity and Female AutonomyReconsidered (Andrea Cornwall).