Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / / edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison. and Ann Whitehead

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825055103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-03010-8; 9786612030109; 1-4443-0667-7; 1-4443-0668-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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