{"product_id":"developing-partnerships-gender-sexuality-and-the-reformed-world-bank-9780816665402","title":"Developing Partnerships  Gender Sexuality and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nuanced critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms through its policies, \u003ci\u003eDeveloping Partnerships\u003c\/i\u003e argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bedford’s pathbreaking work is a must-read for development scholars and practitioners, given its demonstration of the centrality of particular constructions of gender and sexuality to the current development paradigm of ‘inclusive neoliberalism’ (xiii).\"—\u003ci\u003eSigns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeveloping Partnerships\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated, carefully designed, and readable analysis of the intersection of the World Bank with sexual politics. Bedford’s book succeeds both as a cautionary tale and as a call for continued counter-hegemonic efforts within and outside the bank.\"—\u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Working Women, Caring Men, and the Family Bank: Ideal Gender Relations after the \u003cbr\u003e  Washington Consensus\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Model Region Remodels Partnerships: The Politics of Gender Research in Latin \u003cbr\u003e  America and the Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e 3. Forging Partnerships, Sidelining Child Care: How Ecuadorian Femocrats Navigate \u003cbr\u003e  Institutional Constraints in World Bank Gender Policy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Roses Mean Love: Export Promotion and the Restructuring of Intimacy in Ecuador\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cultures of Saving and Loving: Ethnodevelopment, Gender, and Heteronormativity \u003cbr\u003e  in PRODEPINE\u003cbr\u003e 6. Holding It Together: Family Strengthening in Argentina\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405962617175,"sku":"9780816665402","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816665402.jpg?v=1730494061","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/developing-partnerships-gender-sexuality-and-the-reformed-world-bank-9780816665402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}