What does "development" mean for women? Is it their best hope of social progress and equality, or does it simply raise false expectations for the future? Should third world women continue along the development path, or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead? Feminist thinkers explore these critical questions from a variety of different perspectives. In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and…mehr
What does "development" mean for women? Is it their best hope of social progress and equality, or does it simply raise false expectations for the future? Should third world women continue along the development path, or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead? Feminist thinkers explore these critical questions from a variety of different perspectives.In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women.
Kriemild Saunders teaches sociology at St. John's University-Staten Island. She received her PhD from The Graduate School/University Center-CUNY. Her wide-ranging interests include sexuality, queer practices, gender, development, race & class relations.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism - Kriemild Saunders Part I: Aiding Development 1. Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective - Jane Parpart 2. Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies - Kathleen Staudt 3. Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India - Ravina Aggarwal Part II: Locating Women/Locating Work 4. Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival - Saskia Sassen 5. Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico - Marianne Marchand Part III: More Worldly Feminisms 6. Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac - Marnia Lazreg 7. Picture more at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China - Tani Barlow 8. Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities - Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez Part IV: The Science Question in Development 9. Mad Cows and Sacred Cows - Vandana Shiva 10. Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development - Banu Subramaniam, James Bever and Peggy Schulz 11. Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference - Meera Nanda Part V: Stories From the Field: Theorizing Action/Acting on Theory 12. Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse - Patience Elabor-Idemudia 13. Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields - Piya Chatterjee 14. Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women Strategies of Power and Place - Ramona Perez Part VI: Other Bodies 15. Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question - Wendy Harcourt 16. Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective - Esther Wangari 17. Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica - Sylvia Marcos
Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism - Kriemild Saunders Part I: Aiding Development 1. Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective - Jane Parpart 2. Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies - Kathleen Staudt 3. Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India - Ravina Aggarwal Part II: Locating Women/Locating Work 4. Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival - Saskia Sassen 5. Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico - Marianne Marchand Part III: More Worldly Feminisms 6. Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac - Marnia Lazreg 7. Picture more at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China - Tani Barlow 8. Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities - Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez Part IV: The Science Question in Development 9. Mad Cows and Sacred Cows - Vandana Shiva 10. Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development - Banu Subramaniam, James Bever and Peggy Schulz 11. Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference - Meera Nanda Part V: Stories From the Field: Theorizing Action/Acting on Theory 12. Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse - Patience Elabor-Idemudia 13. Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields - Piya Chatterjee 14. Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women Strategies of Power and Place - Ramona Perez Part VI: Other Bodies 15. Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question - Wendy Harcourt 16. Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective - Esther Wangari 17. Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica - Sylvia Marcos
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826