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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 survive
  • Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice
  • Traces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge production
  • Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women's lives worldwide
  • An informed analysis of how gender' has been transfo

    Table of Contents
    1. Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development (Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead).

    2. A Bigger Piece of a Very Small Pie: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Poverty Reduction in Africa (Bridget O’Laughlin).

    3. The Construction of the Myth of Survival (Mercedes González de la Rocha).

    4. Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell (Melissa Leach).

    5. Political Cleaners: Women as the New Anti-Corruption Force? (Anne Marie Goetz).

    6. Resolving Risk? Marriage and Creative Conjugality (Cecile Jackson).

    7. Feminism, Gender, and Women’s Peace Activism (Judy El-Bushra).

    8. Myths To Live By? Female Solidarity and Female Autonomy Reconsidered (Andrea Cornwall).

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    A Paperback / softback by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 28/03/2008
      ISBN13: 9781405169370, 978-1405169370
      ISBN10: 1405169370
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 survive
      • Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice
      • Traces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge production
      • Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women's lives worldwide
      • An informed analysis of how gender' has been transfo

        Table of Contents
        1. Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development (Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead).

        2. A Bigger Piece of a Very Small Pie: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Poverty Reduction in Africa (Bridget O’Laughlin).

        3. The Construction of the Myth of Survival (Mercedes González de la Rocha).

        4. Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell (Melissa Leach).

        5. Political Cleaners: Women as the New Anti-Corruption Force? (Anne Marie Goetz).

        6. Resolving Risk? Marriage and Creative Conjugality (Cecile Jackson).

        7. Feminism, Gender, and Women’s Peace Activism (Judy El-Bushra).

        8. Myths To Live By? Female Solidarity and Female Autonomy Reconsidered (Andrea Cornwall).

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