Developing partnerships [[electronic resource] ] : gender, sexuality, and the reformed World Bank / / Kate Bedford

• Autore: Bedford Kate <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3098
• Soggetto topico: Women in development - Latin America; Sex role - Government policy - Latin America
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Working women, caring men, and the family bank : ideal gender relations after the Washington consensus -- The model region remodels partnerships : the politics of gender research in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Forging partnerships, sidelining child care : how Ecuadorian femocrats navigate institutional constraints in World Bank gender policy -- Roses mean love : export promotion and the restructuring of intimacy in Ecuador -- Cultures of saving and loving : ethnodevelopment, gender, and heteronormativity in PRODEPINE -- Holding it together : family strengthening in Argentina.
• Sommario/riassunto: A critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations. By combining analysis of documents produced and sponsored by the World Bank with interviews of World Bank staffers and case studies, Kate Bedford presents a detailed examination of gender and sexuality in the policies of the world's most influential development institution.
• Titolo autorizzato: Developing partnerships
• ISBN: 0-8166-7043-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810599703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II