| Description |
v, 151 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women and change in the developing world |
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Women and change in the developing world.
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| Contents |
1. Rereading Modernization and Dependency Theory --2. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory -- 3. From Modernization Theory to the "Soft State" in Africa -- 4. Gender and the World Bank: Modernization Theory in Practice -- 5. Marxism, Masculinity, and Dependency Theory -- 6. Contradictions in the Challenges to Dependency: The Roots of Counterrevolution in Southern Africa -- 7. Rethinking Gender and Development |
| Summary |
This provocative critique of both theory and practice goes beyond the "women in development" approach to explore fundamental reconceptualizations of tradition, modernity, masculinity, femininity, revolution, and development |
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Catherine V. Scott demonstrates that many prevailing ideas about development, dependency, capitalism, and socialism are anchored in social constructions of gender differences. Early modernization theorists, points out Scott, often juxtaposed modernity and tradition in ways reminiscent of Enlightenment dichotomies that pitted the rational, productive city against the particularistic, fragmented, and stagnant countryside. Dependency theory, despite its radically difference focus on the causes of underdevelopment, also rests upon masculinist conceptions of the unfolding of history, human labor, and the gendered divisions between the public and private realms. Recent theories of the African "soft state," realized in policymaking, revive modernization theory's dichotomies; and revolutionary political leaders in African countries, though they have challenged imperialism, have retained the Marxist blind-spot regarding gender |
| Analysis |
Developing countries Society Role of Women |
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Developing countries Society Role of Women |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p135-145. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-145) and index |
| Subject |
Dependency.
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Feminist theory.
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Progress.
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Social change.
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Women in development.
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| LC no. |
94022223 |
| ISBN |
155587410X |
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1555876641 |
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