Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development

ISBN-13: 9780415105231 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 275 str.

Professor Marianne H. Marchand; Jane L. Parpart

Opis

This collection challenges the ongoing reliance on dualities and explores the experiences of women of colour, arguing against the silencing of local women's development expertize in favour of the Western development specialist, the questionable font of development knowledge. Using case studies of indigenous women of Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as Asian women in Britain and indigenous Indians in Canada, the book suggests the gap between local development knowledge and Western development expertise can be, and is, bridged in practice. The concern is to explore the representation of women and the value of Western theories of both postmodernity and feminism, as they are applied by Westerners in development research and practice.

O autorze

Marianne H Marchand, Jane L. Parpart