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Gender myths: feminist fables

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posted on 2023-06-07, 16:36 authored by Ann Whitehead, Elizabeth HarrisonElizabeth Harrison, Andrea Cornwall
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. - Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into ‘gender myths’ and ‘feminist fables’: women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to survive - Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice - Traces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge production - Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women’s lives worldwide - An informed analysis of how ‘gender’ has been transformed in its transfer into development policy and how many authors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlier work

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  • Published

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Pages

184.0

ISBN

978-1-405-16937-0

Series

Development and Change Special Issues

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  • Anthropology Publications

Notes

his is an edited book edited by Ann Whitehead, Elizabeth Harrison, Andrea Cornwall

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Editors

Ann Whitehead, Elizabeth Harrison, Andrea Cornwall

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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