Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1842778196 ISBN 13 : 9781842778197

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrea Cornwall is professor in anthropology and development at the University of Sussex, where she is an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and director of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment programme. Joining the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as a fellow in 1998, she supported the emergence of work on sexuality and helped establish the Sexuality and Development Programme. She has published widely on gender and sexuality in development and is executive producer of Save us from Saviours, a short film on Indian sex workers' challenge of the rescue industry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1842778196
• ISBN 13: 9781842778197
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Éditeur: Cornwall Andrea, Harrison Elizabeth, Whitehead Ann
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible