This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.
Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables' women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to survive
Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy...
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. ...
Calls for greater participation of those affected by development interventions have a long history. This expert reader explores the conceptual and methodological dimensions of participatory research and the politics and practice of participation in development. Through excerpts from the texts that have inspired contemporary advocates of participation, accounts of the principles of participatory research and empirical studies that show some of the complexities of participation in practice, it offers a range of reflections on participation that will be of interest to those new to the field and...
Calls for greater participation of those affected by development interventions have a long history. This expert reader explores the conceptual and met...
The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement. Speaking from within academic institutions, social movements, development bureaucracies and national and international NGOs, the contributors highlight on-going battles for interpretation and the unequal power relations within which these battles take place....
The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments...
'We used to talk about development with a human face. We should be talking about development with a body' Arit Oku-Egbas, African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre, Nigeria Sex and sexuality have always had a place at the heart of the development agenda - from concerns regarding population and environment, to practices in education and efforts for protecting reproductive health and rights. Yet this agenda has largely focused on negative dimensions of sexuality - disease, risk, violation - rather than positive aspects, including rights to sexual fulfillment, wellbeing and pleasure....
'We used to talk about development with a human face. We should be talking about development with a body' Arit Oku-Egbas, African Regional Sexuali...
A comprehensive overview of the existing literature on gender, bringing together important and influential essays from widely disparate sources. A valuable collection for scholars and students.BR> ANDREA CORNWALL is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Contributors include: JOSEPHINE BEOKU-BETTS, NIARA SUDARKASA, OBIOMA NNAEMEKA, RUDOLF P. GAUDIO, TIMOTHY BURKE, JANE I. GUYER, MEGAN VAUGHAN, JANET M. BUJRA, IRIS BERGER, BARBARA COOPER, DEBORAH GAITSKELL, STEPHAN E. MEISCHER, BOLANLE AWE, JEAN ALLMAN, SUSAN GEIGER Published in association with the...
A comprehensive overview of the existing literature on gender, bringing together important and influential essays from widely disparate sources. A val...
This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as...
This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambe...
"Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities" features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities, and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men's and women's lives. The book calls for renewed engagement in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle the...
"Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities" features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitio...
This pioneering collection explores the ways in which women's sexual desires are experienced by them and how this experience effects women's empowerment. It shows that an exploration of pleasure can have a hugely positive impact for women at the personal, social and political levels. Traditional gender and development discourses tend to engage with sexuality in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over emphasizing these negative aspects has subsumed women's sexualities under violence, danger and fear. The media,...
This pioneering collection explores the ways in which women's sexual desires are experienced by them and how this experience effects women's empowerme...
The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. This book explores what women are doing to change their own circumstances, and provides in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations. Drawing on unique, original research and approaching empowerment as a complex process of negotiation, rather than a linear sequence of inputs and...
The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education ...
Originally published in 1994, and now a feminist classic, Dislocating Masculinity offers a penetrating critique of writing on and by men. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists, linguists and historians, it raises important comparative questions about how gender operates, addressing issues of embodiment, agency, gender inequality and the variety of masculine styles.
Originally published in 1994, and now a feminist classic, Dislocating Masculinity offers a penetrating critique of writing on and by men. Br...
