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GENDER MYTHS AND FEMINIST FABLES
THE STRUGGLE FOR INTERPRETIVE POWER IN GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT |
| By: |
Andrea Cornwall (Editor), Elizabeth Harrison (Editor), Ann Whitehead (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
1405169370 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781405169370 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 March, 2008 |
| Series: |
Development and Change Special Issues |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Description: |
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. |
| Synopsis: |
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into gender myths and feminist fables : women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to surviveExplores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practiceTraces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge productionArgues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women s lives worldwideAn informed analysis of how gender has been transformed in its transfer into development policy and how many authors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlier work |
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UK |
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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
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