Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
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Description for Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
Paperback. This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. Editor(s): Cornwall, Andrea; Harrison, Elizabeth; Whitehead, Ann. Series: Development and Change Special Issues. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.
- Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into ‘gender myths’ and ‘feminist fables’: women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to survive
- Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice
- Traces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a ... Read more
- Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women’s lives worldwide
- An informed analysis of how ‘gender’ has been transformed in its transfer into development policy and how many authors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlier work
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Development and Change Special Issues
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405169370
SKU
V9781405169370
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Cornwall
Andrea Cornwall is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where she works on the politics of participation, sexualities and development, masculinities and women’s empowerment. She is Director of the DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium Pathways of Women’s Empowerment. Elizabeth Harrison is an anthropologist at the University of Sussex. Her work ... Read more
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