The Women, Gender and Development Reader

Herausgeber: Visvanathan, Nalini; Nisonoff, Laurie; Wiegersma, Nan; Duggan, Lynn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ideal for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781848135871
• ISBN-10: 1848135874
• Artikelnr.: 33149039

Autorenporträt

Nalini Visvanathan is an independent researcher living in the Washington, DC area. Lynn Duggan is Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Laurie Nisonoff is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She is an editor of the Review of Radical Political Economics. Nan Wiegersma is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts. She is the author of Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution and is coauthor (with Joseph Medley) of US Development Policies toward the Pacific Rim.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan The History of International
Development: Concepts and Contexts - Shirin M. Rai Financial Crises and the
Impact on Women: A Historical Note - Jayati Ghosh Gender and Development:
Theoretical Perspectives - Shirin M. Rai Women's Role in Economic
Development - Ester Boserup The Invisible Heart-Care and the Global Economy
- Nancy Folbre Feminist Political Ecology Gender and Environment Series
Editorial Committee (GESEC) Women and Microcredit: A Critical Introduction
- Nalini Visvanathan and Karla Yoder Negotiating Multiple Patriarchies:
Women and Microfinance in South India - Kalpana Karunakaran Gender as a
Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies, and Innovations - Gita
Sen and Piroska Ostlin Peace-Building And Reconstruction With Women:
Refelctions On Afghanistan, Iraq, And Palestine - Valentine M. Moghadam
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra
Talpade Mohanty Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological
Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod The
'Gender Lens': A Racial Blinder? - Sarah C. White Development's Encounter
with Sexuality: Essentialism and Beyond - Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly From
Missionaries to Microcredit? 'Race', Gender and Agency in Neoliberal
Development - Kalpana Wilson Part II Introduction - Lynn Duggan Accounting
For Women's Work: The Progress Of Two Decades - Lourdes Benería 'In The
Eyes Of A Child, A Father Is Everything': Changing Constructions Of
Fatherhood In Urban Botswana? - Kavita Datta Daughters, Decisions And
Domination: An Empirical And Conceptual Critique Of Household Strategies -
Diana L. Wolf Subordination And Sexual Control: A Comparative View Of The
Control Of Women - Gita Sen Discarded Daughters: The Patriarchal Grip,
Dowry Deaths, Sex Ratio Imbalances & Foeticide In India - Aysan Sev'er The
'Feminisation Of Poverty' And The 'Feminisation' Of Anti-Poverty
Programmes: Room For Revision? - Sylvia Chant Part III: Introduction -
Laurie Nisonoff with Lynn Duggan and Nan Wiegersma The Subordination Of
Women And The Internationalization Of Factory Production - Diane Elson and
Ruth Pearson Maquiladoras: The View From The Inside - María Patricia
Fernández-Kelly Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell
Hochschild Slavery And Gender: Women's Double Exploitation - Beth Herzfeld
Globalization And The Increase In Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side -
Jean L. Pyle The Korean Economic Crisis And Working Women - Haejin Kim And
Paula B. Voos Part IV Introduction - Nan Wiegersma International Financial
Architecture: A view from the kitchen - Diane Elson 'One Step Forward- Two
Steps Backward' From Labor Market Exclusion to Inclusion: a gender
perspective on effects of the economic crisis in Turkey - Gülay Toksöz
Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Senegal - The
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) The Population Bomb
is Back - with a Global Warming Twist - Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth
Barajas-Román Caring for People with HIV: State Policies and their
Dependence on Women's Unpaid Work - Anesu Makina The Right to Have Rights:
Resisting Fundamentalist Orders - Deepa Shankaran African Women's Movements
Negotiating Peace - Ali Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice
Mungwa 'I am Somebody!': Brazil's Social Movements Educate for Gender
Equality and Economic Sustainability - Ruth Needleman Capitalism and
Socialism, Some Feminist Questions - Lourdes Benería Part V: Introduction -
Nalini Visvanathan The Global Women's Movement: An Introduction - Peggy
Antrobus 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through
Anticapitalist Struggles - Chandra Talpade Mohanty Challenges in
Transnational Feminist Mobilization - Aili Mari Tripp The International
Women's Commission of La Vía Campesina - Annette Aurélie Desmarais Birthing
and Growing the African Feminist Forum - Ayesha M. Imam Women's Community
Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle - Amy Lind
Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An examination of the
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's (RAWA) - Jennifer
L. Fluri Struggle, Perseverance, And Organization In Sri Lanka's Export
Processing Zones - Samanthi Gunawardana