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Under Development: Gender: Gender, Development and Social Change

Editat de C. Verschuur, I. Guérin, H. Guétat-Bernard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 noi 2014
Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137356819
ISBN-10: 1137356812
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: XVI, 325 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Gender, Development and Social Change

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Gender, a Necessary Tool of Analysis for Social Change; Isabelle Guérin, Hélène Guétat-Bernard and Christine Verschuur PART I: DISCIPLINES 1. A History of Development through a Gender Prism. Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives; Christine Verschuur 2. Feminist Anthropology Meets Development; Fenneke Reysoo 3. Gender and Demography. A Fertile Combination; Agnès Adjamagbo and Thérèse Locoh 4. The sociologist and the 'poor Third World woman', or how an approach focusing on gender relations has helped sociology of development; Blandine Destremau and Bruno Lautier 5. Feminist Development Economics an Institutional Approach to Household Analysis; Irene van Staveren and Olasunbo Odebode 6. Feminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Debates; Isabel Cristina Jaramillo 7. Feminist Interventions in International Relations; Elisabeth Prügl PART II: SPECIFIC ISSUES 8. Labour, family and agriculture: gender and development issues, a North-South perspective; Hélène Guétat-Bernard 9. Revisiting the Migration/Development Nexus from a Gender Perspective. Articulating Production and Reproduction; Christine Catarino and Laura Oso 10. Ambivalent Engagements, Paradoxical Effects: Latin American Feminist and Women's Movements and/in/against Development; Sonia E. Alvarez 11. Neoliberal Capitalism: an Ally for Women? Materialist and Imbricationist Feminist Perspectives; Jules Falquet 12. Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Crisis: a View from Feminist Economics; Lourdes Beneria 13. The solidarity economy revisited in the light of gender: a tool for social change or reproducing the subordination of women?; Isabelle Guérin and Mariam Nobre 14. Conclusion. Body politics and the making and unmaking of gender and development; Wendy Harcourt

Recenzii

“Under Development: Gender is … clearly aboutconcepts and viewpoints that influence our thinking on gender and development. …provide a history of feminist thought on development, summarising and analysinga body of literature very valuable to both old and new generations of thoseconcerned with development issues and intentions. … provides a valuable set ofsignposts for those engaged in development work, of which we should all take notice,whether we are academics and researchers or practitioners, or both.” (InesSmyth, Gender & Development, Vol. 23 (3), November, 2015)

Notă biografică

Agnès Adjambago, Institute of Research for Development (IRD), FranceSonia E. Alvarez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USALourdes Beneria, Cornell University, USABlandine Destremau, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), FranceChristine Catarino, independent scholarJules Falquet, Université Paris Diderot, FranceIsabel Cristina Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes, ColombiaBruno Lautier, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, FranceThérèse Locoh, French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), FranceMiriam Nobre, Women International and University of São-Paulo, BrazilOlasunbo Odebode, UNICEF Abuja, NigeriaLaura Oso, University of La Coruña, SpainElisabeth Prügl, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), SwitzerlandFenneke Reysoo, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), SwitzerlandIrene van Staveren, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands