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...

In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested. New voices from the South are challenging Northern control over development.
Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this power struggle. It examines new issues, -voices-, and dilemmas in development theory and practice. Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as women of colour, this collection questions established development practices and suggests the need to...