
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Duke University Press
Will be published approx. on 27. March 2006
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-8223-3700-3 (ISBN)
Description
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors draw from their experiences and research in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to illuminate the connections between women's well-being and globalization, environmental conservation, land rights, access to information technology, employment, and poverty alleviation.Highlighting key institutional issues, contributors analyze the two approaches that dominate the field: women in development (WID) and gender and development (GAD). They assess the results of gender mainstreaming, the difficulties that development agencies have translating gender rhetoric into equity in practice, and the conflicts between gender and the reassertion of indigenous cultural identities. Focusing on resource allocation, contributors explore the gendered effects of land privatization, the need to challenge cultural traditions that impede women's ability to assert their legal rights, and women's access to bureaucratic levers of power. Several essays consider women's mobilizations, including a project to provide Internet access and communications strategies to African NGOs run by women. In the final essay, Irene Tinker, one of the field's founders, reflects on the interactions between policy innovation and women's organizing over the three decades since women became a focus of development work. Together the contributors bridge theory and practice to point toward productive new strategies for women and gender in development.
Contributors. Maruja Barrig, Sylvia Chant, Louise Fortmann, David Hirschmann, Jane S. Jaquette, Diana Lee-Smith, Audrey Lustgarten, Doe Mayer, Faranak Miraftab, Muadi Mukenge, Barbara Pillsbury, Amara Pongsapich, Elisabeth PrUEgl, Kirk R. Smith, Kathleen Staudt, Gale Summerfield, Irene Tinker, Catalina Hinchey Trujillo
Contributors. Maruja Barrig, Sylvia Chant, Louise Fortmann, David Hirschmann, Jane S. Jaquette, Diana Lee-Smith, Audrey Lustgarten, Doe Mayer, Faranak Miraftab, Muadi Mukenge, Barbara Pillsbury, Amara Pongsapich, Elisabeth PrUEgl, Kirk R. Smith, Kathleen Staudt, Gale Summerfield, Irene Tinker, Catalina Hinchey Trujillo
Reviews / Votes
"This book begins with a very important question: is there a crisis in the gender and development field despite its large expansion and growing complexity? The different contributors address this question, directly or indirectly, from an interdisciplinary perspective. From the analysis of changing institutions to the control of resources, political participation, gender mainstreaming, and many other relevant themes, the book makes an excellent contribution to the historical analysis of the field and its current developments and tensions. There is much food for thought here."-Lourdes BenerIa, author of Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered "This excellent collection by leading scholars and policy actors sets the ongoing gender and development debate in the context of the changing international political and policy climate. In bringing different regional perspectives to bear on the new challenges facing gender justice advocates, it updates critical thinking on the urgency of applying gender analysis to development policy, human security, and globalization."-Maxine Molyneux, author of Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond "This important collection provides a much-needed fresh look at women, gender, and development. Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield's overview chapter is superb."-Valentine M. Moghadam, UNESCOMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
6 tables, 4 figures
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-3700-3 (9780822337003)
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Jane S. Jaquette | Gale Summerfield
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
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03/2006
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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
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