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'Absorbing and smart.' Elisabeth M. PrÏgl, author of Transforming Masculine Rule Manufacturing Urgency investigates anti-violence policies in international development, demonstrating that strategies intended to end violence against women are constructed to serve ends other than the needs of women. Through careful consideration of anti-violence initiatives--including 'The Hillary Doctrine,' the World Bank's 'The Cost of Violence,' and the United Nation's 'UNiTE To End Violence Against Women' campaigns--Corinne Mason shows how these projects are technocratic, depoliticized, and executed in a manner that serves the interest of neoliberal economic growth and security concerns, at the expense of a more holistic, effective, and accountable approach. 'An impressive contribution....Mason's work is transdisciplinary, and theoretically sophisticated. She weaves together critical race, disability and feminist theory, literature on violence, development studies and their impact on policy w

Manufacturing Urgency The Development Industry

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      Publisher: University of Regina Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/20/2017
      ISBN13: 9780889774711, 978-0889774711
      ISBN10: 889774714
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      Gender studies: women and girls

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      Book Synopsis
      'Absorbing and smart.' Elisabeth M. PrÏgl, author of Transforming Masculine Rule Manufacturing Urgency investigates anti-violence policies in international development, demonstrating that strategies intended to end violence against women are constructed to serve ends other than the needs of women. Through careful consideration of anti-violence initiatives--including 'The Hillary Doctrine,' the World Bank's 'The Cost of Violence,' and the United Nation's 'UNiTE To End Violence Against Women' campaigns--Corinne Mason shows how these projects are technocratic, depoliticized, and executed in a manner that serves the interest of neoliberal economic growth and security concerns, at the expense of a more holistic, effective, and accountable approach. 'An impressive contribution....Mason's work is transdisciplinary, and theoretically sophisticated. She weaves together critical race, disability and feminist theory, literature on violence, development studies and their impact on policy w

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