LEADER 03559nam 2200685Ia 450 001 996206200503316 005 20230721005423.0 010 $a1-282-03010-8 010 $a9786612030109 010 $a1-4443-0667-7 010 $a1-4443-0668-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724336 035 $a(EBL)437438 035 $a(OCoLC)320959378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000161139 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177586 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161139 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191023 035 $a(PQKB)10710015 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC437438 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL437438 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10300873 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL203010 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724336 100 $a20080911d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGender myths and feminist fables$b[electronic resource] $ethe struggle for interpretive power in gender and development /$fedited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison. and Ann Whitehead 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 $aThis collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables': women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to surviveExplores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and prac 410 0$aDevelopment and change (Unnumbered) 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. 676 $a305.4209172/4 701 $aCornwall$b Andrea$f1963-$0146711 701 $aHarrison$b Elizabeth$f1963-$0935978 701 $aWhitehead$b Ann$f1946-$0146854 712 02$aInstitute of Development Studies (Brighton, England) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996206200503316 996 $aGender myths and feminist fables$92108447 997 $aUNISA