Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

ISBN-13: 9781783606399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 528 str.

Amy Lind;Rachel Simon-Kumar; USA) Ifi Amadiume (Dartmouth College

Opis

At a time when fundamental concerns about social justice, sustainability, economic justice, and cultural diversity continue to be relegated to the sidelines of the mainstream development agenda, Feminist Futures is more essential than ever.
This revised and updated edition collects leading academics and a new generation of activists and scholars to provide fresh perspectives on how women in the Global South tranform our understanding of development. With essays ranging across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, it reveals how development efforts have repeatedly failed the Third World and illuminates the complex ways in which women continue to resist attempts to marginalize and subordinate them. Bringing together cultural studies, development studies, and feminist theory, contributors articulate an innovative framework for understanding connections between women, culture, and development, applying it to everything from sexuality to the environment, technology, and the cultural politics of representation.
Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism for a fascinating exploration of evolving positions of women in the Global South and an urgent demand for rethinking development approaches in the twenty-first century.

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Preface to the Second Edition 1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian Visions I Maria’s Stories - Maria Ofelia Navarrete The Woof and the Warp - Luisa Valenzuela Consider the Problem of Privatisation - Anna Tsing Part I: Sexuality and the Gendered Body 2. More ‘"Tragedies" in Out-of-the-Way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale’ - Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem 3. ‘Revolution with a Woman’s Face’? Family Norms, Constitutional Reform, and the Politics of Redistribution in Post/Neoliberal Ecuador - Amy Lind 4. Claiming the State: Revisiting Women’s Reproductive Identity in India’s Development Policy - Rachel Simon-Kumar 5. Abortion and African Culture: A Case Study of Kenya - Jane Wambui Njagi 6. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water - Ifi Amadiume Visions II Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders - Jan Nederveen Pieterse Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: Revisiting the Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development - Dana Collins Revolutionary Women’s Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in Rural Areas in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization - Peter Chua ‘What Should I Say about a Dream?’: Reflections on Adolescent Girls, Agency and Citizenship - Gauri Nandedkar Part II: Environment, Technology, Science 7. New Lenses with Limited Vision: Shell Scenarios, Science Fiction, Storytelling Wars - David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian 8. Development Nationalism: Science, Religion and the Quest for a Modern India - Banu Subramaniam 9. What Would Rachel Say? - Joni Seager 10. Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies - Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi 11. The Intersection of Women, Culture and Development: Conversations about Visions for the Future – Take Two - Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt Visions III Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution - John Foran Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice - Light Carruyo The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-Being, Resources for Struggle - Linda Klouzal Part III: The Cultural Politics of Representation 12. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan’s Nativist Literature - Ming-yan Lai 13. Revisiting the mostaz’af and the mostakbar - Minoo Moallem 14. Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter: ‘Women, Culture and Development’ from a Francophone or Postcolonial Perspective - Anjali Prabhu 15. The Precarious Middle Class: Gender, Risk and Mobility in the New Indian Economy - Raka Ray Visions IV An Antipodean Take on Gender, Culture and Development Co-operation - Susanne Schech On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development - Julie Shayne Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development - Sangion Appiee Tiu Reimagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope ... and You - John Foran Postscript: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi