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Feminist visions of development : gender analysis and policy / edited by Cecile Jackson and Ruth Pearson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in development economicsPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, ©1998.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203980468
  • 9780203980460
  • 9780415142342
  • 0415142342
  • 9780415157902
  • 0415157900
  • 1134727135
  • 9781134727131
  • 1280139013
  • 9781280139017
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Feminist visions of development.DDC classification:
  • 305.42 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1240 .F464 1998eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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 * population * reproductive rights * industrialisation * macroeconomic policy * poverty. Inspired by recent feminist theoretical work, it re-examines previous structural analysis and opens the way for further research in the field.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Print version record.

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 * population * reproductive rights * industrialisation * macroeconomic policy * poverty. Inspired by recent feminist theoretical work, it re-examines previous structural analysis and opens the way for further research in the field.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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