1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146105303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007

ISBN

1-282-03010-8

9786612030109

1-4443-0667-7

1-4443-0668-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

Development and change book series

Altri autori (Persone)

CornwallAndrea <1963->

HarrisonElizabeth <1963->

WhiteheadAnn <1946->

Disciplina

305.4209172/4

Soggetti

Feminism - Political aspects

Feminist theory

Sex role - Sociological aspects

Women in development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 prac

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694342603321

Titolo

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 281 p.)

Soggetti

Government attorneys - Selection and appointment - United States

Executive power - United States

Justice, Administration of - Political aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694401203321

Titolo

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 60 p.)

Soggetti

Emissions trading - Law and legislation - United States

Greenhouse gas mitigation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia