Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development
Editat de Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, Debashish Munshien Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2016
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.
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781783606382
ISBN-10: 178360638X
Pagini: 225
Ilustrații: Tables, black and white 1 ; Figures 1
Dimensiuni: 127 x 229 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:2 ed.
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 178360638X
Pagini: 225
Ilustrații: Tables, black and white 1 ; Figures 1
Dimensiuni: 127 x 229 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:2 ed.
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology, global studies, and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where John Foran is professor of sociology and environmental studies. Priya A. Kurian is associate professor of political science and public policy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where Debashish Munshi is professor of management communication.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements and Dedications
About the contributors
Abbreviations
Preface to the Second Edition - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi
1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya 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. ‘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
Cases of Revolutionary Women’s Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in the Countryside in the Age of Neoliberal Globalisation - 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 Kurian and Debashish Munshi
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
11. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan’s Nativist Literature - Ming-yan Lai
12. Revisiting the Mostaz’af and the Mostakbar - Minoo Moallem
13. Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter: ‘Women, Culture and Development’ from a Francophone/Postcolonial Perspective - Anjali Prabhu
14. 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 Cooperation - Susanne Schech
On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development - Julie Shayne
Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development - Sangion Tiu
Re-Imagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope and You - John Foran
Post-scripts: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi
Bibliography
About the contributors
Abbreviations
Preface to the Second Edition - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi
1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya 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. ‘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
Cases of Revolutionary Women’s Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in the Countryside in the Age of Neoliberal Globalisation - 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 Kurian and Debashish Munshi
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
11. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan’s Nativist Literature - Ming-yan Lai
12. Revisiting the Mostaz’af and the Mostakbar - Minoo Moallem
13. Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter: ‘Women, Culture and Development’ from a Francophone/Postcolonial Perspective - Anjali Prabhu
14. 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 Cooperation - Susanne Schech
On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development - Julie Shayne
Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development - Sangion Tiu
Re-Imagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope and You - John Foran
Post-scripts: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi
Bibliography
Recenzii
“Provides a rich perspective on the lived experiences and agencies of women. A highly creative endeavor that will be valuable to activists and academics committed to both agendas of social justice and nuanced understandings of the effects of development.”
“A diverse and exciting tapestry of themes and authors, drawn from different disciplines and countries, assessing the situation of women in the South and speaking to the multiple challenges for the future.”
“A candid and hard-hitting agenda for feminist scholarship and activism in the South in the twenty-first century.”
“While providing an unflinching account of the ravages of globalization, the authors uncover visions of radically transformative feminisms that are rooted in women’s daily struggles for survival. The women, culture, and development approach that the authors embrace is more prescient and necessary than ever.”
“This is the second edition of the influential text that established the women, culture, and development (WCD) approach to issues of women and development. The WCD approach links insights from feminist studies, cultural studies, and development studies to critique previous frameworks that privilege economics, narrowly define culture, or reproduce hierarchical gender relations. Yet this book is more than a critique; chapters also provide alternative accounts placing the lives and perspectives of women in the Third World at the center of analysis. Contributions are global in scope, interdisciplinary in perspective, and cover a wide range of issues. . . . Highly recommended.”
“A valuable and often challenging volume, a winding river that yields nuggets of gold.”