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100 _aSaunders Kriemild
245 _aFeminist post-development thought : Rethinking modernity post-colonialism and representation
260 _aLondon
_bZed Books
_c2004
300 _a368p
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365 _b Rs.350
504 _aIn this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women.
505 _aContents: Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism - Kriemild Saunders; Part I: Aiding Development or Post-Development; 1. Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective - Jane Parpart; 2. Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies - Kathleen Staudt; 3. Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India - Ravina Aggarwal; Part II: The Feminization of the Global Economy; 4. Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival - Saskia Sassen; 5. Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico - Marianne Marchand; Part III: More Worldly Feminisms; 6. Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac - Marnia Lazreg; 7. Picture more at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China - Tani Barlow; 8. Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities - Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez; Part IV: The Science Question in Development; 9. Mad Cows and Sacred Cows - Vandana Shiva; 10. Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development - Banu Subramaniam, James Bever and Peggy Schulz; 11. Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference - Meera Nanda; Part V: Stories From the Field: 12. Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse - Patience Elabor-Idemudia; 13. Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields - Piya Chatterjee; 14. Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women Strategies of Power and Place - Ramona Perez; Part VI: Other Bodies; 15. Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question - Wendy Harcourt; 16. Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective - Esther Wangari; 17. Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica - Sylvia Marcos ; References and bibliography; Index.
650 _a1. Economic Development2. Women - Developing Countries - Economic Conditions3. Feminist Economics
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