The Women, Gender and Development Reader (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Part I Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan The History of International Development: Concepts and Contexts - Shirin M. Rai Financial Crises and the Impact on Women: A Historical Note - Jayati Ghosh Gender and Development: Theoretical Perspectives - Shirin M. Rai Women's Role in Economic Development - Ester Boserup The Invisible Heart-Care and the Global Economy - Nancy Folbre Feminist Political Ecology Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee (GESEC) Women and Microcredit: A Critical Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan and Karla Yoder Negotiating Multiple Patriarchies: Women and Microfinance in South India - Kalpana Karunakaran Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies, and Innovations - Gita Sen and Piroska Ostlin Peace-Building And Reconstruction With Women: Refelctions On Afghanistan, Iraq, And Palestine - Valentine M. Moghadam Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra Talpade Mohanty Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod The 'Gender Lens': A Racial Blinder? - Sarah C. White Development's Encounter with Sexuality: Essentialism and Beyond - Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly From Missionaries to Microcredit? 'Race', Gender and Agency in Neoliberal Development - Kalpana Wilson Part II Introduction - Lynn Duggan Accounting For Women's Work: The Progress Of Two Decades - Lourdes Beneria 'In The Eyes Of A Child, A Father Is Everything': Changing Constructions Of Fatherhood In Urban Botswana? - Kavita Datta Daughters, Decisions And Domination: An Empirical And Conceptual Critique Of Household Strategies - Diana L. Wolf Subordination And Sexual Control: A Comparative View Of The Control Of Women - Gita Sen Discarded Daughters: The Patriarchal Grip, Dowry Deaths, Sex Ratio Imbalances & Foeticide In India - Aysan Sev'er The 'Feminisation Of Poverty' And The 'Feminisation' Of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room For Revision? - Sylvia Chant Part III: Introduction - Laurie Nisonoff with Lynn Duggan and Nan Wiegersma The Subordination Of Women And The Internationalization Of Factory Production - Diane Elson and Ruth Pearson Maquiladoras: The View From The Inside - Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild Slavery And Gender: Women's Double Exploitation - Beth Herzfeld Globalization And The Increase In Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side - Jean L. Pyle The Korean Economic Crisis And Working Women - Haejin Kim And Paula B. Voos Part IV Introduction - Nan Wiegersma International Financial Architecture: A view from the kitchen - Diane Elson 'One Step Forward- Two Steps Backward' From Labor Market Exclusion to Inclusion: a gender perspective on effects of the economic crisis in Turkey - Gulay Toksoz Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Senegal - The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) The Population Bomb is Back - with a Global Warming Twist - Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Roman Caring for People with HIV: State Policies and their Dependence on Women's Unpaid Work - Anesu Makina The Right to Have Rights: Resisting Fundamentalist Orders - Deepa Shankaran African Women's Movements Negotiating Peace - Ali Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa 'I am Somebody!': Brazil's Social Movements Educate for Gender Equality and Economic Sustainability - Ruth Needleman Capitalism and Socialism, Some Feminist Questions - Lourdes Beneria Part V: Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan The Global Women's Movement: An Introduction - Peggy Antrobus 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles - Chandra Talpade Mohanty Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization - Aili Mari Tripp The International Women's Commission of La Via Campesina - Annette Aurelie Desmarais Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum - Ayesha M. Imam Women's Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle - Amy Lind Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's (RAWA) - Jennifer L. Fluri Struggle, Perseverance, And Organization In Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones - Samanthi Gunawardana