TY - BOOK AU - Cornwall,Andrea AU - Harrison,Elizabeth AU - Whitehead,Ann TI - Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges SN - 1842778196 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - HQ1240 .F288 2007 U1 - 305.4209172/4 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Women in development KW - Feminist theory KW - Sekseverschillen KW - gtt KW - Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling KW - Ontwikkelingspolitiek KW - Femmes dans le dâeveloppement KW - Thâeorie fâeministe KW - Ontwikkelingslanden KW - Gender myths KW - Development policy N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032575.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006032575-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006032575-d.html ER -