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Andrea (Hrsg.) Cornwall

Gender Myths and Feminist Fables

The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development

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This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers whoexamine the struggles for interpretive power which underliesinternational development.* Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender anddevelopment research are so often turned into 'gendermyths' and 'feminist fables': women are morelikely to care for the environment; are better at working together;are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity tosurvive* Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations ofgender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded indevelopment policy and practice* Traces the ways in which language and images of development a… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Harrison, Elizabeth (Hrsg.) / Whitehead, Ann (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4443-0668-2
  • EAN: 9781444306682
  • Produktnummer: 13890277
  • Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 184 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'475 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Andrea Cornwall is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where she works on the politics of participation, sexualities and development, masculinities and women’s empowerment. She is Director of the DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium Pathways of Women’s Empowerment. Elizabeth Harrison is an anthropologist at the University of Sussex. Her work has been broadly within the anthropology of development, with a particular interest in institutional dynamics and in the deployment of policies for gender justice. She has conducted research primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and, more recently, in Europe.Ann Whitehead teaches anthropology and gender and development at the University of Sussex. She has written extensively within the fields of gender and development, feminist anthropology and the anthropology of rural Ghana.

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