Under Development: Gender

✍ Scribed by Christine Verschuur, Isabelle Guérin, Hélène Guétat-Bernard (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Series: Gender, Development and Social Change
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Gender, a Necessary Tool of Analysis for Social Change....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
A History of Development Through a Gender Prism: Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives....Pages 17-41
Feminist Anthropology Meets Development....Pages 42-60
Gender and Demography: A Fertile Combination....Pages 61-83
The Sociologist and the “Poor Third World Woman”, or How an Approach Focusing on Gender Relations Has Helped Sociology of Development....Pages 84-102
Feminist Development Economics: An Institutional Approach to Household Analysis....Pages 103-126
Feminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Studies....Pages 127-148
Feminist Interventions in International Relations....Pages 149-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Labour, Family and Agriculture: Gender and Development Issues, a North-South Perspective....Pages 169-191
The Seed and the Fertile Soil: Re-examining the Migration-Development Nexus through the Lens of Gender....Pages 192-210
Ambivalent Engagements, Paradoxical Effects: Latin American Feminist and Women’s Movements and/in/against Development....Pages 211-235
Neoliberal Capitalism: An Ally for Women? Materialist and Imbricationist Feminist Perspectives....Pages 236-256
Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Crisis: a View from Feminist Economics....Pages 257-285
Solidarity Economy Revisited in the Light of Gender: A Tool for Social Change or Reproducing the Subordination of Women?....Pages 286-305
Conclusion: Body Politics and the Making and Unmaking of Gender and Development....Pages 306-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-325

✦ Subjects

Development Studies;Development and Social Change;Development Economics;Development Policy;Gender Studies;Political Economy