Feminisms in Development : Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges (Paperback)

Introduction: Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges - Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead Part I: The Struggle Over Interpretation 1. Gender Myths that Instrumentalise Women: A View from the Indian Frontline - Srilatha Batliwala and Deepa Dhanraj 2. Dangerous Equations? How Female-headed Households Became the Poorest of the Poor: Causes, Consequences and Cautions - Sylvia Chant 3. Back to Women? Translations, Re-Significations, and Myths of Gender in Policy and Practice in Brazil - Cecilia Sardenberg 4. Battles Over Booklets: Gender Myths in the British Aid Programme - Rosalind Eyben 5. Not Very Poor, Powerless or Pregnant. The African Woman Forgotten by Development - Everjoice Win 6. 'Streetwalkers Show the Way': Reframing the Debate on Trafficking from Sex Workers' Perspective - Nandinee Bandyopadhyay, Swapna Gayen, Rama Debnath, Kajol Bose, Sikha Das, Geeta Das, M. Das, Manju Biswas, Pushpa Sarkar, Putul Singh, Rashoba Bibi, Rekha Mitra and Sudipta Biswas Part II: Institutonalising Gender in Development 7. Gender, Myth and Fable: The Perils of Mainstreaming in Sector Bureaucracies - Hilary Standing 8. Making Sense of Gender in Shifting Institutional Contexts: Some Reflections on Gender Mainstreaming - Ramya Subrahmanian 9. Gender Mainstreaming: What is it (About) and Should We Continue Doing it? - Prudence Woodford-Berger 10. Mainstreaming Gender or 'Streaming' Gender Away: Feminists Marooned in the Development Business - Maitrayee Mukhopadhay 11. Critical Connections: Feminist Studies in African Contexts - Amina Mama 12. SWAPping Gender: From Cross-Cutting Obscurity to Sectoral Security? - Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler Part III: Looking to the Future: Challenges for Feminist Engagement 13. The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements - Islah Jad 14. Political Fiction Meets Gender Myth: Post-conflict Reconstruction, 'Democratisation' and Women's Rights - Deniz Kandiyoti 15. Re-assessing Paid Work and Women's Empowerment: Lessons from the Global Economy - Ruth Pearson 16. Announcing a New Dawn Prematurely? Human Rights Feminists and the Rights Based Approaches to Development.- Dzodzi Tsikata 17. The Chimera of Success: Gender Ennui and the Changed International Policy Environment - Maxine Molyneux Notes on Contributors Index