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Author Bedford, Kate, 1975-

Title Developing partnerships : gender, sexuality, and the reformed World Bank / Kate Bedford
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 292 pages) : illustrations
Contents Working women, caring men, and the family bank : ideal gender relations after the Washington consensus -- The model region remodels partnerships : the politics of gender research in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Forging partnerships, sidelining child care : how Ecuadorian femocrats navigate institutional constraints in World Bank gender policy -- Roses mean love : export promotion and the restructuring of intimacy in Ecuador -- Cultures of saving and loving : ethnodevelopment, gender, and heteronormativity in PRODEPINE -- Holding it together : family strengthening in Argentina
Summary A critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations. By combining analysis of documents produced and sponsored by the World Bank with interviews of World Bank staffers and case studies, Kate Bedford presents a detailed examination of gender and sexuality in the policies of the world's most influential development institution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject World Bank -- Latin America
SUBJECT World Bank fast
Subject Women in development -- Latin America
Sex role -- Government policy -- Latin America
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Sex role -- Government policy
Women in development
Latin America
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816670437
0816670439
0816665397
9780816665396
0816665400
9780816665402