The Women, Gender and Development Reader
Zed Books Ltd (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 7. July 2011
Book
Hardback
472 pages
978-1-84813-586-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array of global case studies.
This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.
This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.
Reviews / Votes
The decision to bring out a second edition of this widely used collection of key articles on gender and development will be warmly welcomed by scholars and practitioners in the field. The collection has become a standard text in most courses related to this topic. * Naila Kabeer, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS * This book brings a fresh, more nuanced and complex perspective to old and new questions about development by linking them to history, to social movements, to politics, to financial institutions, both national and international, and above all, to the key actors in development, ordinary women and men on the ground. * Urvashi Butalia, Publisher and Writer, Director of Zubaan Books * The editors are to be congratulated for capturing so deftly the huge strides gender and development studies have taken in these last years. The Women, Gender and Development Reader will be recommended reading for a long time to come. * Wendy Harcourt, author of the prize winning Body Politics in Development * The Women, Gender and Development Reader helps unpack what progress has been made in over fifteen years since the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women, and the political, economic, cultural and other impediments to the attainment of real equality between men and women. The editors should be congratulated for giving a panoramic view of the state of gender relations and yet providing concrete and representative examples of challenges and how they can be surmounted by different levels of actors from the local to the intergovernmental systems and financing mechanisms. * Strike Mkandla, UNEP Representative to the African Union (AU), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) *More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
872 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84813-586-4 (9781848135864)
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Nalini Visvanathan | Lynn Duggan | Nan Wiegersma
The Women, Gender and Development Reader
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01/1997
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€106.66
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Persons
Nalini Visvanathan is an independent researcher living in the Washington, DC area, USA.
Lynn Duggan is Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
Laurie Nisonoff is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She is an editor of the Review of Radical Political Economics.
Nan Wiegersma is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution and is coauthor (with Joseph Medley) of US Development Policies toward the Pacific Rim.
Lynn Duggan is Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
Laurie Nisonoff is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She is an editor of the Review of Radical Political Economics.
Nan Wiegersma is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution and is coauthor (with Joseph Medley) of US Development Policies toward the Pacific Rim.
Content
Part I
Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan
The History of International Development: Concepts and Contexts - Shirin M. Rai
Financial Crises and the Impact on Women: A Historical Note - Jayati Ghosh
Gender and Development: Theoretical Perspectives - Shirin M. Rai
Women's Role in Economic Development - Ester Boserup
The Invisible Heart-Care and the Global Economy - Nancy Folbre
Feminist Political Ecology Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee (GESEC)
Women and Microcredit: A Critical Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan and Karla Yoder
Negotiating Multiple Patriarchies: Women and Microfinance in South India - Kalpana Karunakaran
Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies, and Innovations - Gita Sen and Piroska Ostlin
Peace-Building And Reconstruction With Women: Refelctions On Afghanistan, Iraq, And Palestine - Valentine M. Moghadam
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod
The 'Gender Lens': A Racial Blinder? - Sarah C. White
Development's Encounter with Sexuality: Essentialism and Beyond - Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly
From Missionaries to Microcredit? 'Race', Gender and Agency in Neoliberal Development - Kalpana Wilson
Part II
Introduction - Lynn Duggan
Accounting For Women's Work: The Progress Of Two Decades - Lourdes Beneria
'In The Eyes Of A Child, A Father Is Everything': Changing Constructions Of Fatherhood In Urban Botswana? - Kavita Datta
Daughters, Decisions And Domination: An Empirical And Conceptual Critique Of Household Strategies - Diana L. Wolf
Subordination And Sexual Control: A Comparative View Of The Control Of Women - Gita Sen
Discarded Daughters: The Patriarchal Grip, Dowry Deaths, Sex Ratio Imbalances & Foeticide In India - Aysan Sev'er
The 'Feminisation Of Poverty' And The 'Feminisation' Of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room For Revision? - Sylvia Chant
Part III: Introduction - Laurie Nisonoff with Lynn Duggan and Nan Wiegersma
The Subordination Of Women And The Internationalization Of Factory Production - Diane Elson and Ruth Pearson
Maquiladoras: The View From The Inside - Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
Slavery And Gender: Women's Double Exploitation - Beth Herzfeld
Globalization And The Increase In Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side - Jean L. Pyle
The Korean Economic Crisis And Working Women - Haejin Kim And Paula B. Voos
Part IV
Introduction - Nan Wiegersma
International Financial Architecture: A view from the kitchen - Diane Elson
'One Step Forward- Two Steps Backward' From Labor Market Exclusion to Inclusion: a gender perspective on effects of the economic crisis in Turkey - Guelay Toksoez
Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Senegal - The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
The Population Bomb is Back - with a Global Warming Twist - Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Roman
Caring for People with HIV: State Policies and their Dependence on Women's Unpaid Work - Anesu Makina
The Right to Have Rights: Resisting Fundamentalist Orders - Deepa Shankaran
African Women's Movements Negotiating Peace - Ali Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa
'I am Somebody!': Brazil's Social Movements Educate for Gender Equality and Economic Sustainability - Ruth Needleman
Capitalism and Socialism, Some Feminist Questions - Lourdes Beneria
Part V: Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan
The Global Women's Movement: An Introduction - Peggy Antrobus
'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization - Aili Mari Tripp
The International Women's Commission of La Via Campesina - Annette Aurelie Desmarais
Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum - Ayesha M. Imam
Women's Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle - Amy Lind
Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's (RAWA) - Jennifer L. Fluri
Struggle, Perseverance, And Organization In Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones - Samanthi Gunawardana
Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan
The History of International Development: Concepts and Contexts - Shirin M. Rai
Financial Crises and the Impact on Women: A Historical Note - Jayati Ghosh
Gender and Development: Theoretical Perspectives - Shirin M. Rai
Women's Role in Economic Development - Ester Boserup
The Invisible Heart-Care and the Global Economy - Nancy Folbre
Feminist Political Ecology Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee (GESEC)
Women and Microcredit: A Critical Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan and Karla Yoder
Negotiating Multiple Patriarchies: Women and Microfinance in South India - Kalpana Karunakaran
Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies, and Innovations - Gita Sen and Piroska Ostlin
Peace-Building And Reconstruction With Women: Refelctions On Afghanistan, Iraq, And Palestine - Valentine M. Moghadam
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod
The 'Gender Lens': A Racial Blinder? - Sarah C. White
Development's Encounter with Sexuality: Essentialism and Beyond - Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly
From Missionaries to Microcredit? 'Race', Gender and Agency in Neoliberal Development - Kalpana Wilson
Part II
Introduction - Lynn Duggan
Accounting For Women's Work: The Progress Of Two Decades - Lourdes Beneria
'In The Eyes Of A Child, A Father Is Everything': Changing Constructions Of Fatherhood In Urban Botswana? - Kavita Datta
Daughters, Decisions And Domination: An Empirical And Conceptual Critique Of Household Strategies - Diana L. Wolf
Subordination And Sexual Control: A Comparative View Of The Control Of Women - Gita Sen
Discarded Daughters: The Patriarchal Grip, Dowry Deaths, Sex Ratio Imbalances & Foeticide In India - Aysan Sev'er
The 'Feminisation Of Poverty' And The 'Feminisation' Of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room For Revision? - Sylvia Chant
Part III: Introduction - Laurie Nisonoff with Lynn Duggan and Nan Wiegersma
The Subordination Of Women And The Internationalization Of Factory Production - Diane Elson and Ruth Pearson
Maquiladoras: The View From The Inside - Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
Slavery And Gender: Women's Double Exploitation - Beth Herzfeld
Globalization And The Increase In Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side - Jean L. Pyle
The Korean Economic Crisis And Working Women - Haejin Kim And Paula B. Voos
Part IV
Introduction - Nan Wiegersma
International Financial Architecture: A view from the kitchen - Diane Elson
'One Step Forward- Two Steps Backward' From Labor Market Exclusion to Inclusion: a gender perspective on effects of the economic crisis in Turkey - Guelay Toksoez
Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Senegal - The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
The Population Bomb is Back - with a Global Warming Twist - Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Roman
Caring for People with HIV: State Policies and their Dependence on Women's Unpaid Work - Anesu Makina
The Right to Have Rights: Resisting Fundamentalist Orders - Deepa Shankaran
African Women's Movements Negotiating Peace - Ali Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa
'I am Somebody!': Brazil's Social Movements Educate for Gender Equality and Economic Sustainability - Ruth Needleman
Capitalism and Socialism, Some Feminist Questions - Lourdes Beneria
Part V: Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan
The Global Women's Movement: An Introduction - Peggy Antrobus
'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization - Aili Mari Tripp
The International Women's Commission of La Via Campesina - Annette Aurelie Desmarais
Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum - Ayesha M. Imam
Women's Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle - Amy Lind
Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's (RAWA) - Jennifer L. Fluri
Struggle, Perseverance, And Organization In Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones - Samanthi Gunawardana