Feminisms in Development

Feminisms in Development
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Publisher : Zed Books
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 1842778196
ISBN-13 : 9781842778197
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Feminisms in Development by : Andrea Cornwall

This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presented feminists with some enormous challenges. Here, emphasizing the importance of a plurality of approaches, the authors argue for the importance of what 'feminisms' have to say to development. Confronting the enormous challenges for feminisms in development studies, this book provides real hope for dialogue and exchange between feminisms and development.

Gendered Paradoxes

Gendered Paradoxes
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9780271076362
ISBN-13 : 0271076364
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Gendered Paradoxes by : Amy Lind

Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and “unfinished” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist “issue networks” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.

Women in Politics

Women in Politics
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781783600540
ISBN-13 : 1783600543
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in Politics by : Mariz Tadros

Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women's political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still. We have, however, begun to understand what it takes to create an enabling environment for women's political participation. In this exciting and pioneering collection, writers from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are brought together for the first time to talk explicitly about women's participation in the political scene across the global South. Answering such questions as how women can get political apprenticeship opportunities, how these opportunities translate into the pursuit of a political career, and how these pursuits then influence the kind of political platform women advocate once in power, Women in Politics is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to engage politically.

Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory

Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9781107126084
ISBN-13 : 1107126088
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory by : Robin Truth Goodman

This book offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, it traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection of feminist theoretical production to literary work.

Feminisms in Development

Feminisms in Development
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Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9781848136694
ISBN-13 : 1848136692
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Feminisms in Development by : Andrea Cornwall

This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism’s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presented feminists with some enormous challenges. Here, emphasizing the importance of a plurality of approaches, the authors argue for the importance of what ‘feminisms’ have to say to development. Confronting the enormous challenges for feminisms in development studies, this book provides real hope for dialogue and exchange between feminisms and development.

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood
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Publisher : UCL Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781787350632
ISBN-13 : 1787350630
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Feminism and the Politics of Childhood by : Rachel Rosen

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This unique collection of 18 chapters brings into dialogue authors from a range of geographical contexts, social science disciplines, activist organisations, and theoretical perspectives. The wide variety of subjects include refugee camps, care labour, domestic violence and childcare and education. Chapter authors focus on local contexts as well as their global interconnections, and draw on diverse theoretical traditions such as poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, postcolonialism, political economy, and the ethics of care. Together the contributions offer new ways to conceptualise relations between women and children, and to address injustices faced by both groups. Praise for Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? ‘This book is genuinely ground-breaking.’ ‒ Val Gillies, University of Westminster ‘Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? asks an impossible question, and then casts prismatic light on all corners of its impossibility.’ ‒ Cindi Katz, CUNY ‘This provocative and stimulating publication comes not a day too soon.’ ‒ Gerison Lansdown, Child to Child ‘A smart, innovative, and provocative book.’ ‒ Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University ‘This volume raises and addresses issues so pressing that it is surprising they are not already at the heart of scholarship.’ ‒ Ann Phoenix, UCL

The Future of Feminism

The Future of Feminism
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780745637426
ISBN-13 : 0745637426
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future of Feminism by : Sylvia Walby

Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era. Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over. Feminism is a success, although many gender inequalities remain. Feminism is taking powerful new forms, which makes it unrecognisable to some. In The Future of Feminism, Sylvia Walby offers a provocative riposte to the notion that feminism is dead. Substantiating her arguments with evidence of the vibrancy of contemporary feminism in civil society and beyond, she provides a succinct yet comprehensive critical review of recent treatments of feminism explaining why they have got it wrong. The book provides the definitive account of feminism's new and varied projects, goals, alliances and organizational forms, including feminism as a global wave. It offers engaged accounts of feminist activities across a range of domains in the economy, polity, violence and civil society. Successful feminist projects are not always named as feminist, sometimes being mainstreamed into coalitions with social democratic and global human rights activists. Feminism is now global, though also taking local forms, and these new coalitions are the basis for the future of feminism. On the future of feminism depends not only the future of gender inequality but the future of social inequality more generally.

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development
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Publisher : IDRC
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9780889369108
ISBN-13 : 0889369100
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by : Jane L. Parpart

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.

Sport, Gender and Development

Sport, Gender and Development
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Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9781838678630
ISBN-13 : 1838678638
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Sport, Gender and Development by : Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts.

Young Feminisms

Young Feminisms
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ISBN-10 : 1788531337
ISBN-13 : 9781788531337
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Young Feminisms by : Caroline Sweetman

This collection explores how young women's movements, along with the support they need, can offer a model of political, intersectional work to guide and re-politicise international development.