03700nam 2200757Ia 450 991082505510332120200520144314.09786612030109978128203010712820301089781444306675144430667797814443066821444306685(CKB)1000000000724336(EBL)437438(OCoLC)320959378(SSID)ssj0000161139(PQKBManifestationID)11177586(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161139(PQKBWorkID)10191023(PQKB)10710015(MiAaPQ)EBC437438(Au-PeEL)EBL437438(CaPaEBR)ebr10300873(CaONFJC)MIL203010(Perlego)2768580(EXLCZ)99100000000072433620080911d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender myths and feminist fables the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development /edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison. and Ann Whitehead1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwell20071 online resource (184 p.)Development and change book seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9781405169370 1405169370 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 pracDevelopment and change (Unnumbered)FeminismPolitical aspectsFeminist theorySex roleSociological aspectsWomen in developmentFeminismPolitical aspects.Feminist theory.Sex roleSociological aspects.Women in development.305.4209172/4Cornwall Andrea1963-146711Harrison Elizabeth1963-935978Whitehead Ann1946-146854Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825055103321Gender myths and feminist fables2108447UNINA