The Women, Gender and Development Reader

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.

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

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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
Feminist Political Ecology Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee (GESEC)
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: Refelctions 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

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