Feminisms in development contradictions, contestations and challenges (Zed Books, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline - Srilatha Batliwala and Deepa Dhanraj -- - Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions - Sylvia Chant -- - Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil - Cecilia Sardenberg -- - Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme - Rosalind Eyben -- - Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development - Everjoice Win -- - 'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective - Nandinee Bandyopadhyay with Swapna Gayen ... [et al.] -- - Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies - Hilary Standing -- - Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming - Ramya Subrahmanian -- - Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? - Prudence Woodford-Berger -- - Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business - Maitrayee Mukhopadhay -- - Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts - Amina Mama -- - SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? - Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler -- - The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements - Islah Jad -- - Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights - Deniz Kandiyoti -- - Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy - Ruth Pearson -- - Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development - Dzodzi Tsikata -- - The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment - Maxine Molyneux