{"product_id":"gender-myths-and-feminist-fables-9781405169370","title":"Gender Myths and Feminist Fables","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eQuestions 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge production\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn informed analysis of how gender' has been transfo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development (Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead).  \u003cp\u003e2. A Bigger Piece of a Very Small Pie: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Poverty Reduction in Africa (Bridget O’Laughlin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Construction of the Myth of Survival (Mercedes González de la Rocha).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell (Melissa Leach).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Political Cleaners: Women as the New Anti-Corruption Force? (Anne Marie Goetz).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Resolving Risk? Marriage and Creative Conjugality (Cecile Jackson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Feminism, Gender, and Women’s Peace Activism (Judy El-Bushra).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Myths To Live By? Female Solidarity and Female Autonomy Reconsidered (Andrea Cornwall).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407901827415,"sku":"9781405169370","price":19.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405169370.jpg?v=1730500903","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gender-myths-and-feminist-fables-9781405169370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}