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



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Titolo: Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / / edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison. and Ann Whitehead Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
Disciplina: 305.4209172/4
Soggetto topico: Feminism - Political aspects
Feminist theory
Sex role - Sociological aspects
Women in development
Altri autori: CornwallAndrea <1963->  
HarrisonElizabeth <1963->  
WhiteheadAnn <1946->  
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
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ISBN: 1-282-03010-8
9786612030109
1-4443-0667-7
1-4443-0668-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825055103321
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Serie: Development and change (Unnumbered)