Feminist visions of development : gender analysis and policy /

In the wake of the 4th World Conference on Women this volume brings together leading gender and development scholars who interrogate the last twenty years of work in this area. Feminist Visions of Development throws fresh light on key issues including: * gender and the environment * education * popu...

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Other Authors: Jackson, Cecile, Pearson, Ruth, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, ©1998.
Series:Studies in development economics.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Interrogating development: feminism, gender and policy / Ruth Pearson and Cecile Jackson
  • Who needs [sex] when you can have [gender]? conflicting discourses on gender at Beijing / Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz
  • Rescuing gender from the poverty trap / Cecile Jackson
  • Analysing women's movements / Maxine Molyneux
  • Jumping to conclusions?: struggles over meaning and method in the study of household economics / Naila Kabeer
  • Famine and transformation in gender relations / Jocelyn Kynch
  • Gender, power and contestation: 'rethinking bargaining with patriarchy' / Deniz Kandiyoti
  • Talking to the boys: gender and economic growth models / Diane Elson
  • 'Nimble fingers' revisited: reflections on women and Third World industrialization in the late twentieth century / Ruth Pearson
  • Female and male grain marketing systems: analytical and policy issues for West Africa and India / Barbara Harriss-White
  • Gender analysis of family planning: beyond the 'feminist vs. population control' debate / Ines Smyth
  • Silver bullet or passing fancy?: girls' schooling and population policy / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
  • Questionable links: approaches to gender in environmental research and policy / Cathy Green, Susan Joekes and Melissa Leach.