Book Cover
Book

Uniform Title Women, gender, & development reader
Title The women, gender, and development reader / edited by Nalini Visvanathan (co-ordinator) ; Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff, and Nan Wiegersma
Published London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books ; Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood, 1997
London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, ©1997

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  305.4 Vis/Wga  AVAILABLE
 MELB  305.4 Vis/Wga  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Part I. Theories of Women, Gender and Development. The Making of a Field: Advocates, Practitioners and Scholars --- Accumulation, Reproduction and Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited --- Gender and Development --- Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development --- Women in Nature --- The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India --- The African Context: Women in the Political Economy --- Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses --- Bargaining with Patriarchy ---- Part II. Households and Families. Accounting for Women's Work: The Progress of Two Decades --- Daughters, Decisions and Dominations: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies --- The Hidden Roots of the African Food Problem: Looking within the Rural Household --- Subordination and Sexual Control: A Comparative View of the Control of Women --- Wife Abuse in the Context of Development and Change: A Chinese (Taiwanese) Case --- Single-parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns ---- Part III. Women in the Global Economy. The Subordination of Women and the Internationalization of Factory Production -- Maquiladoras: The View from the Inside --- Capitalism, Imperialism and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third World Women Workers in Multinational Factories --- Women in the Informal Labor Sector: The Case of Mexico City --- Deindustrialization and the Growth of Women's Economic Associations and Networks in Urban Tanzania ---- Part IV. International Women in Social Transformation. Impact of the Economic Crisis on Poor Women and their Households --- Ghana: Women in the Public and Informal Sectors under the Economic Recovery Programme --- Abuses against Women and Girls under the One-child Family Plan in the People's Republic of China --- Women, Population and the Environment: Whose Consensus, Whose Empowerment? --- AIDS: Women Are Not Just Transmitters --- Gender, Nation and Colonialism: Lessons from the Philippines --- Women, Marriage and the State in Iran --- Return to the Veil: Personal Strategy and Public Participation in Egypt --- Capitalism and Socialism: Some Feminist Questions --- Downwardly Mobile: Women in the Decollectivization of East European Agriculture --- Part V.Women Organizing Themselves for Change. Planning from a Gender Perspective --- Women as Political Actors in Rural Puerto Rico: Continuity and Change --- Women and the Labour Movement in South Korea --- SEWA: Women in Movement
Summary Third World women were long the undervalued and ignored actors in the development process but are now recognized as playing a critical role. This book has been designed as a comprehensive reader presenting the best of the now vast body of literature that has grown up alongside this acknowledgement. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The first part acts as an introduction to the field, examining the key theoretical debates and discourses surrounding women and development from a historical perspective. Distinguished practitioners explore the ideas and concepts fundamental for understanding the area: class, 'race' and ethnicity, religion, reproduction, persistent inequalities, colonialism, modernization, economic exclusion and patriarchy. Part two goes on to look at the household as a unit of analysis exploring sexuality, single-parent families, agricultural production, and environmental relationships while the third part locates women within the global economy, addressing issues such as industrialization, multi-national companies, Free Trade Zones , the informal sector and the feminization of labour. Part four views the social transformation of women as a consequence of Structural Adjustment Policies and intrusive state policies into women's health, reproductive rights and sexuality. Next, the volume poses the fundamental questions around women and ideology do national liberation struggles contradict with feminist movements? What is the impact of religious fundamentalism? Are socialist development processes similar or dissimilar to capitalist processes? How has the transition to capitalism affected women? The final section of the book shows how women from the ground up are organizing themselves for change. Case studies drawn from all regions, such as China's one-child policy, prostitution tourism in Southeast Asia and women's place in Cuban socialism, vividly illustrate the theoretical debates. A guide to further reading at the end of each chapter provides a foundation for any serious student of women in the development process. -- Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Women in development -- Developing countries.
Women in development.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Social conditions.
Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
Women -- Developing countries.
Author Duggan, Lynn, 1956- editor
Nisonoff, Laurie, 1949- editor
Visvanathan, Nalini, 1945- editor
Wiegersma, Nancy, editor
LC no. 96047238
ISBN 086486342X
1856491412
1856491420
1895686865
9780864863423
9781856491419
9781856491426
9781895686869
(paperback) Bangladesh)
Other Titles Women, gender & development reader