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The Women, Gender and Development Reader

Edited by Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Nan Wiegersma and Laurie Nisonoff

Second Edition
Ideal for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.
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The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change.

Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array of global case studies. This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature.

The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.

Author Bio

Nalini Visvanathan is an independent researcher living in Washington, DC.

Lynn Duggan is Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

Laurie Nisonoff is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She is an editor of the Review of Radical Political Economics.

Nan Wiegersma is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts. She is the author of Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution and is coauthor (with Joseph Medley) of US Development Policies toward the Pacific Rim.

Table of Contents

  • Part I: Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan 
    • The History of International Development: Concepts and Contexts - Shirin M. Rai 
    • Financial Crises and the Impact on Women: A Historical Note - Jayati Ghosh 
    • Gender and Development: Theoretical Perspectives - Shirin M. Rai 
    • Women's Role in Economic Development - Ester Boserup 
    • The Invisible Heart-Care and the Global Economy - Nancy Folbre 
    • Women and Microcredit: A Critical Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan and Karla Yoder 
    • Negotiating Multiple Patriarchies: Women and Microfinance in South India - Kalpana Karunakaran
    • Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies, and Innovations - Gita Sen and Piroska Ostlin 
    • Peace-Building And Reconstruction With Women: Reflections On Afghanistan, Iraq, And Palestine - Valentine M. Moghadam 
    • Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra Talpade Mohanty 
    • Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod 
    • The 'Gender Lens': A Racial Blinder? - Sarah C. White 
    • Development's Encounter with Sexuality: Essentialism and Beyond - Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly
    • From Missionaries to Microcredit? 'Race', Gender and Agency in Neoliberal Development - Kalpana Wilson 
  • Part II: Introduction - Lynn Duggan 
    • Accounting For Women's Work: The Progress Of Two Decades - Lourdes Benería 
    • 'In The Eyes Of A Child, A Father Is Everything': Changing Constructions Of Fatherhood In Urban Botswana? - Kavita Datta 
    • Daughters, Decisions And Domination: An Empirical And Conceptual Critique Of Household Strategies - Diana L. Wolf 
    • Subordination And Sexual Control: A Comparative View Of The Control Of Women - Gita Sen
    • Discarded Daughters: The Patriarchal Grip, Dowry Deaths, Sex Ratio Imbalances & Foeticide In India - Aysan Sev'er 
    • The 'Feminisation Of Poverty' And The 'Feminisation' Of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room For Revision? - Sylvia Chant 
  • Part III: Introduction - Laurie Nisonoff with Lynn Duggan and Nan Wiegersma 
    • The Subordination Of Women And The Internationalization Of Factory Production - Diane Elson and Ruth Pearson 
    • Maquiladoras: The View From The Inside - María Patricia Fernández-Kelly 
    • Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild 
    • Slavery And Gender: Women's Double Exploitation - Beth Herzfeld 
    • Globalization And The Increase In Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side - Jean L. Pyle 
    • The Korean Economic Crisis And Working Women - Haejin Kim And Paula B. Voos 
  • Part IV: Introduction - Nan Wiegersma 
    • International Financial Architecture: A View from the Kitchen - Diane Elson 
    • 'One Step Forward- Two Steps Backward' From Labor Market Exclusion to Inclusion: a Gender Perspective on Effects of the Economic Crisis in Turkey - Gülay Toksöz 
    • Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Senegal - The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) 
    • The Population Bomb is Back - with a Global Warming Twist - Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Román 
    • Caring for People with HIV: State Policies and their Dependence on Women's Unpaid Work - Anesu Makina 
    • The Right to Have Rights: Resisting Fundamentalist Orders - Deepa Shankaran 
    • African Women's Movements Negotiating Peace - Ali Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa 
    • 'I am Somebody!': Brazil's Social Movements Educate for Gender Equality and Economic Sustainability - Ruth Needleman 
    • Capitalism and Socialism, Some Feminist Questions - Lourdes Benería 
  • Part V: Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan 
    • The Global Women's Movement: An Introduction - Peggy Antrobus 
    • 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles - Chandra Talpade Mohanty 
    • Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization - Aili Mari Tripp 
    • The International Women's Commission of La Vía Campesina - Annette Aurélie Desmarais 
    • Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum - Ayesha M. Imam 
    • Women's Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle - Amy Lind
    • Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's (RAWA) - Jennifer L. Fluri 
    • Struggle, Perseverance, And Organization In Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones - Samanthi Gunawardana

Reviews

'The collection has become a standard text in most courses related to this topic. The revised edition will prove equally valuable.'
Naila Kabeer, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS

'Will be recommended reading for a long time to come.'
Wendy Harcourt, author of the prize winning Body Politics in Development

'This book brings a fresh, more nuanced and complex perspective to old and new questions about development by linking them to history, to social movements, to politics, to financial institutions, both national and international, and above all, to the key actors in development, ordinary women and men on the ground.'
Urvashi Butalia, Publisher and Writer, Director of Zubaan Books

'The editors should be congratulated for giving a panoramic view of the state of gender relations.'
Strike Mkandla, UNEP Representative to the African Union (AU), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Details

Publication Date: 7 July 2011
472 pages

Product ISBNs: Paperback 2nd Edition: 9781848135871
Hardback 2nd Edition: 9781848135864
eBook ePub 2nd Edition: 9781780321387
eBook Kindle 2nd Edition: 9781780322421
Library Edition: 9781856491419

Previous Editions: Paperback 1st Edition: 9781856491426

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