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200 00$aGender myths and feminist fables $ethe struggle for interpretive power in gender and development /$fedited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison. and Ann Whitehead
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (184 p.)
225 1 $aDevelopment and change book series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-4051-6937-0 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aGender 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 Gonza?lez 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.
330   $aThis 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
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606   $aFeminism$xPolitical aspects
606   $aFeminist theory
606   $aSex role$xSociological aspects
606   $aWomen in development
615  0$aFeminism$xPolitical aspects.
615  0$aFeminist theory.
615  0$aSex role$xSociological aspects.
615  0$aWomen in development.
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701   $aHarrison$b Elizabeth$f1963-$0935978
701   $aWhitehead$b Ann$f1946-$0146854
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