Feminisms in development contradictions, contestations and challenges

The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and com...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Cornwall, Andrea (BerichterstatterIn), Harrison, Elizabeth (BerichterstatterIn), Whitehead, Ann (BerichterstatterIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Zed Books 2007
Schlagworte:
Online Zugang:Cover
Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement. Speaking from within academic institutions, social movements, development bureaucracies and national and international NGOs, the contributors highlight on-going battles for interpretation and the unequal power relations within which these battles take place. They engage with the challenges of achieving solidarity in the context of increasingly polarised geo-political relations, and advance a diversity of critiques of simplified ideas about gender, and how these ideas come to be interpreted in institutional policies and practices.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:253 p
22cm
ISBN:1842778196
1-84277-819-6
1842778188
1-84277-818-8