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Beschreibung
In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women.
In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women.
Über den Autor
Kriemild Saunders teaches sociology at St. John's University-Staten Island. She received her PhD from The Graduate School/University Center-CUNY. Her wide-ranging interests include sexuality, queer practices, gender, development, race & class relations.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism - Kriemild Saunders
Part I: Aiding Development
1. Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective - Jane Parpart
2. Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies - Kathleen Staudt
3. Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India - Ravina Aggarwal

Part II: Locating Women/Locating Work
4. Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival - Saskia Sassen
5. Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico - Marianne Marchand

Part III: More Worldly Feminisms
6. Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac - Marnia Lazreg
7. Picture more at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China - Tani Barlow
8. Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities - Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez

Part IV: The Science Question in Development
9. Mad Cows and Sacred Cows - Vandana Shiva
10. Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development - Banu Subramaniam, James Bever and Peggy Schulz
11. Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference - Meera Nanda

Part V: Stories From the Field: Theorizing Action/Acting on Theory
12. Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse - Patience Elabor-Idemudia
13. Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields - Piya Chatterjee
14. Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women Strategies of Power and Place - Ramona Perez

Part VI: Other Bodies
15. Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question - Wendy Harcourt
16. Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective - Esther Wangari
17. Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica - Sylvia Marcos

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781856499477
ISBN-10: 1856499472
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Saunders, Kriemild
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Kriemild Saunders
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2002
Gewicht: 0,588 kg
Artikel-ID: 132028470

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