Jaquette / Summerfield Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice

Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8775-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaquette, Jane S.

Summerfield, Gale

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fortmann, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield 1

I. Institutional Opportunities and Barriers 15

Women, Gender, and Development / Jane S. Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt 17

Mainstreaming Gender in International Organizations / Elisabeth Prugl and Audrey Lustgarten 53

From “Home Economics” to “Microfianace:; Gender Rhetoric and the Bureaucratic Resistance / David Hirschmann 71

Contributions of a Gender Perspective to the Analysis of Poverty / Sylvia Chant 87

What is Justice? Indigenous Women in Andean Development Projects / Maruja Barrig 107

II. Livelihood and Control of Resouces 135

Gender Equity and Rural Land Reform In China / Gale Summerfield 137

Unequal Rights: Women and Property / Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo 159

On Loan from Home: Women’s Participation in Formulating Human Settlements Policies / Faranak Miraftab 173

In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World / Louise Fortmann 191

Women’s Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword / Kirk R. Smith 202

III. Women’s Mobilization and Power 217

Women’s Movements in the Globalizing World: The Case of Thailand / Amara Pongsapich 219

T-Shirts to Web Links: Women Connect! Communications Capacity-Building with Women’s NGOs / Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury, and Muadi Mukenge 240

Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women’s Organizations / Irene Tinker 268

Acronyms 303

Bibliography 306

Contributors 352

Index 357

Über Autor(innen)

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.