Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice

Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization

Edited by: Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield
With contributions by: Louise Fortmann

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387756

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About this book

Collection of essays on issues of women and development, attempting to bridge theory and practice in the post-9/11 era to reflect debates in various realms, from the environment, land rights, and identity to information technology, employment, and poverty

Author / Editor information

Jane S. Jaquette is Bertha Harton Orr Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the editor of The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy and a coeditor of Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe.

Gale Summerfield is Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and Associate Professor in Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a coeditor of Women’s Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam and Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries.

Reviews

“This book begins with a very important question: is there a crisis in the gender and development field despite its large expansion and growing complexity? The different contributors address this question, directly or indirectly, from an interdisciplinary perspective. From the analysis of changing institutions to the control of resources, political participation, gender mainstreaming, and many other relevant themes, the book makes an excellent contribution to the historical analysis of the field and its current developments and tensions. There is much food for thought here.”—Lourdes Benería, author of Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered

“This excellent collection by leading scholars and policy actors sets the ongoing gender and development debate in the context of the changing international political and policy climate. In bringing different regional perspectives to bear on the new challenges facing gender justice advocates, it updates critical thinking on the urgency of applying gender analysis to development policy, human security, and globalization.”—Maxine Molyneux, author of Women’s Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond

“This important collection provides a much-needed fresh look at women, gender, and development. Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield’s overview chapter is superb.”—Valentine M. Moghadam, UNESCO

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Institutional Opportunities and Barriers
Women, Gender, and Development Jane S. Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Mainstreaming Gender in International Organizations Elisabeth Prügl and Audrey Lustgarten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
From ‘‘Home Economics’’ to ‘‘Microfinance’’: Gender Rhetoric and Bureaucratic Resistance David Hirschmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Contributions of a Gender Perspective to the Analysis of Poverty Sylvia Chant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
What Is Justice? Indigenous Women in Andean Development Projects Maruja Barrig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
II. Livelihood and Control of Resources
Gender Equity and Rural Land Reform in China Gale Summerfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Unequal Rights: Women and Property Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
On Loan from Home: Women’s Participation in Formulating Human Settlements Policies Faranak Miraftab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World Louise Fortmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Women’s Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword Kirk R. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
III. Women’s Mobilization and Power
Women’s Movements in the Globalizing World: The Case of Thailand Amara Pongsapich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
T-Shirts to Web Links: Women Connect! Communications Capacity-Building with Women’s NGOs Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury and Muadi Mukenge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women’s Organizations Irene Tinker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Acronyms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Other: 6 tables, 4 figures

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Published: March 27, 2006
ISBN: 9780822387756