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UNINA9910146105303321 |
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Gender myths and feminist fables [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / / edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison. and Ann Whitehead |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007 |
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1-282-03010-8 |
9786612030109 |
1-4443-0667-7 |
1-4443-0668-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Collana |
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Development and change book series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CornwallAndrea <1963-> |
HarrisonElizabeth <1963-> |
WhiteheadAnn <1946-> |
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Disciplina |
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Feminism - Political aspects |
Feminist theory |
Sex role - Sociological aspects |
Women in development |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead -- A bigger piece of a very small pie : intrahousehold resource allocation and poverty reduction in Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin -- The construction of the myth of survival / Mercedes González de la Rocha -- Earth mother myths and other ecofeminist fables : how a strategic notion rose and fell / Melissa Leach -- Political cleaners : women as the new anti-corruption force? / Anne Marie Goetz -- Resolving risk? marriage and creative conjugality / Cecile Jackson -- Feminism, gender, and women's peace activism / Judy El-Bushra -- Myths to live by? female solidarity and female autonomy reconsidered / Andrea Cornwall. |
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This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine |
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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 prac |
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UNINA9910694342603321 |
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Restoring checks and balances in the confirmation process of United States attorneys : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on H.R. 580, March 6, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (v, 281 p.) |
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Government attorneys - Selection and appointment - United States |
Executive power - United States |
Justice, Administration of - Political aspects - United States |
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UNINA9910694401203321 |
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EIA analysis of draft climate change legislation : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on analysis recently completed by the Energy Information Administration, "Energy market and economic impacts of a proposal to reduce greenhouse gas intensity with a cap and trade system," January 24, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 60 p.) |
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Emissions trading - Law and legislation - United States |
Greenhouse gas mitigation - United States |
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