"The Women, Gender and Development Reader II" is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array of global case studies. This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. There is a guide to further reading at the end of each chapter that provides a foundation for further study. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.
Table of Contents
Tables and boxes
ix
Introductory note x
Acknowledgements xi
Sources xiii
PART ONE History of international development; theories and discourse of women, gender and development
Introduction
3 (11)
Nalini Visvanathan
1 The history of international development: concepts and contexts
14 (8)
Shirin M. Rai
2 Financial crises and the impact on women: a historical note
22 (6)
Jayati Ghosh
3 Gender and development: theoretical perspectives
28 (10)
Shirin M. Rai
4 Women's role in economic development
38 (3)
Ester Boserup
5 The invisible heart: care and the global economy
41 (2)
Nancy Folbre
6 Feminist political ecology
43 (4)
Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee (GESEC)
7 Women and microcredit: a critical introduction
47 (8)
Nalini Visvanathan
Karla Yoder
8 Negotiating multiple patriarchies: women and microfinance in South India
55 (9)
K. Kalpana
9 Gender as a social determinant of health: evidence, policies, and innovations
64 (10)
Gita Sen
Piroska Ostlin
10 Peace-building and reconstruction with women: reflections on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine
74 (9)
Valentine M. Moghadam
11 Under Western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses
83 (6)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
12 Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others
89 (6)
Lila Abu-Lughod
13 The `gender lens': a racial blinder?
95 (4)
Sarah C. White
14 From missionaries to microcredit? `Race', gender and agency in neo-liberal development
99 (3)
Kalpana Wilson
15 Development's encounter with sexuality: essentialism and beyond
102 (5)
Sonia Correa
Susie Jolly
PART TWO Households, families and work
Introduction
107 (7)
Lynn Duggan
16 Accounting for women's work: the progress of two decades
114 (7)
Lourdes Beneria
17 `In the eyes of a child, a father is everything': changing constructions of fatherhood in urban Botswana?
121 (16)
Kavita Datta
18 Daughters, decisions and domination: an empirical and conceptual critique of household strategies
137 (17)
Diana L. Wolf
19 Subordination and sexual control: a comparative view of the control of women
154 (8)
Gita Sen
20 Discarded daughters: the patriarchal grip, dowry deaths, sex ratio imbalances and foeticide in India
162 (12)
Aysan Sever
21 The `feminization of poverty' and the `feminization' of anti-poverty programmes: room for revision?
174 (23)
Sylvia Chant
PART THREE Women in the global economy
Introduction
197 (15)
Laurie Nisonoff
Lynn Duggan
Nan Wiegersma
22 The subordination of women and the internationalization of factory production
212 (13)
Diane Elson
Ruth Pearson
23 Maquiladoras: the view from the inside
225 (12)
Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
24 Global women
237 (8)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Arlie Russell Hochschild
25 Slavery and gender: women's double exploitation
245 (7)
Beth Herzfeld
26 Globalization and the increase in transnational care work: the flip side
252 (18)
Jean L. Pyle
27 The Korean economic crisis and working women
270 (17)
Haejin Kim
Paula B. Voos
PART FOUR International women in social transformation
Introduction
287 (8)
Nan Wiegersma
28 International financial architecture: a view from the kitchen
295 (11)
Diane Elson
29 `One step forward, two steps backward' - from labor market exclusion to inclusion: a gender perspective on effects of the economic crisis in Turkey
306 (11)
Gulay Toksoz
30 Gender, climate change and human security: lessons from Senegal
317 (10)
The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
31 The population bomb is back - with a global warming twist
327 (7)
Betsy Hartmann
Elizabeth Barajas-Roman
32 Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women's unpaid work
334 (10)
Anesu Makina
33 The right to have rights: resisting fundamentalist orders
344 (5)
Deepa Shankaran
34 African women's movements negotiating peace
349 (11)
Aili Mari Tripp
Isabel Casimiro
Joy Kwesiga
Alice Mungwa
35 `I am somebody!': Brazil's social movements educate for gender equality and economic sustainability
360 (12)
Ruth Needleman
36 Capitalism and socialism: some feminist questions
372 (11)
Lourdes Beneria
PART FIVE Women organizing themselves for change: transnational movements, local resistance
Introduction
383 (8)
Nalini Visvanathan
37 The global women's movement: an introduction
391 (3)
Peggy Antrobus
38 `Under Western eyes' revisited: feminist solidarity through anti-capitalist struggles
394 (8)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
39 Challenges in transnational feminist mobilization
402 (6)
Aili Mari Tripp
40 The international women's commission of La Via Campesina
408 (6)
Annette Aurelie Desmarais
41 Birthing and growing the African Feminist Forum
414 (3)
Ayesha M. Imam
42 Women's community organizing in Quito: the paradoxes of survival and struggle
417 (8)
Amy Lind
43 Feminist nation-building in Afghanistan: an examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
425 (7)
Jennifer L. Fluri
44 Struggle, perseverance, and organization in Sri Lanka's export processing zones
432 (7)
Samanthi Gunawardana
Index 439