Collection of essays on issues of women and development, attempting to bridge theory and practice in the post-9/11 era to reflect debates in various realms, from the environment, land rights, and identity to information technology, employment, and poverty
Collection of essays on issues of women and development, attempting to bridge theory and practice in the post-9/11 era to reflect debates in various realms, from the environment, land rights, and identity to information technology, employment, and poverty
Jane S. Jaquette is Bertha Harton Orr Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the editor of The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy and a coeditor of Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. Gale Summerfield is Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and Associate Professor in Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a coeditor of Women’s Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam and Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries.
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Preface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield 1 I. Institutional Opportunities and Barriers 15 Women, Gender, and Development / Jane S. Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt 17 Mainstreaming Gender in International Organizations / Elisabeth Prugl and Audrey Lustgarten 53 From “Home Economics” to “Microfianace:; Gender Rhetoric and the Bureaucratic Resistance / David Hirschmann 71 Contributions of a Gender Perspective to the Analysis of Poverty / Sylvia Chant 87 What is Justice? Indigenous Women in Andean Development Projects / Maruja Barrig 107 II. Livelihood and Control of Resouces 135 Gender Equity and Rural Land Reform In China / Gale Summerfield 137 Unequal Rights: Women and Property / Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo 159 On Loan from Home: Women’s Participation in Formulating Human Settlements Policies / Faranak Miraftab 173 In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World / Louise Fortmann 191 Women’s Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword / Kirk R. Smith 202 III. Women’s Mobilization and Power 217 Women’s Movements in the Globalizing World: The Case of Thailand / Amara Pongsapich 219 T-Shirts to Web Links: Women Connect! Communications Capacity-Building with Women’s NGOs / Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury, and Muadi Mukenge 240 Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women’s Organizations / Irene Tinker 268 Acronyms 303 Bibliography 306 Contributors 352 Index 357
Preface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield 1 I. Institutional Opportunities and Barriers 15 Women, Gender, and Development / Jane S. Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt 17 Mainstreaming Gender in International Organizations / Elisabeth Prugl and Audrey Lustgarten 53 From “Home Economics” to “Microfianace:; Gender Rhetoric and the Bureaucratic Resistance / David Hirschmann 71 Contributions of a Gender Perspective to the Analysis of Poverty / Sylvia Chant 87 What is Justice? Indigenous Women in Andean Development Projects / Maruja Barrig 107 II. Livelihood and Control of Resouces 135 Gender Equity and Rural Land Reform In China / Gale Summerfield 137 Unequal Rights: Women and Property / Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo 159 On Loan from Home: Women’s Participation in Formulating Human Settlements Policies / Faranak Miraftab 173 In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World / Louise Fortmann 191 Women’s Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword / Kirk R. Smith 202 III. Women’s Mobilization and Power 217 Women’s Movements in the Globalizing World: The Case of Thailand / Amara Pongsapich 219 T-Shirts to Web Links: Women Connect! Communications Capacity-Building with Women’s NGOs / Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury, and Muadi Mukenge 240 Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women’s Organizations / Irene Tinker 268 Acronyms 303 Bibliography 306 Contributors 352 Index 357
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