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Engendering African Social Sciences
Author | : Ayesha Imam |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This was one of the most pioneering works in the field of gender and social sciences in the African context, and remains an authoritative text. It is an extensively researched and forcefully argued study offering a critique and directions for gendering the social sciences in Africa. The sixteen chapters cover methodological and epistemological questions and substantive issues in the various social science disciplines, ranging from economics, politics, and history, to sociology and anthropology. Thirteen scholars contribute, including the three distinguished women editors. The translation, which is edited from the English and newly introduced by the renowned feminist scholar Fatou Sow, is an achievement itself, an incursion into the notorious difficulties of translating what are notably Anglo-Saxon concepts of sex and gender into the French language and distinctive academic environment; of interpreting western concepts of feminism within the African environment; as well as being an opportunity to revisit what deserves to become a classic text and reach a wider audience.
New Directions in Development Economics
Author | : Mats Lundahl |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2005-08-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134808828 |
This volume is divided into two thematic parts: economic growth (or its absence) in developing countries; and contributions to the debate on the role of the state versus the market. It outlines possible policy prescriptions of relevance both in the North and South.
From WID to GAD
Author | : Shahrashoub Razavi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Non-governmental organizations |
ISBN | : |
Women, International Development
Author | : Kathleen Staudt |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2010-09-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1439906769 |
In the seven years since the first edition of this book, global attention has focused on some remarkable transitions to democracy on different continents. Unfortunately, those transitions have often failed to improve the situation of women, and democratic practices have not included women in government, homes, and workplaces. At the same time, non-governmental organizations have continued to expand a policy agenda with a concern for women, thanks to the Fourth World Congress on Women and a series of United Nations-affiliated meetings leading up to the one on population and development in Cairo in 1994 and, most important, the Beijing Conference in December 1995, attended by 50,000 people. Two new essays and a new conclusion reflect the upsurge of interest in women and development since 1990. An introductory essay by Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz focuses on the conflict over the term "gender" at the Beijing Conference and the continuing divisions between conservative women and feminists and also between representatives of the North and South.
Feminist Visions of Development
Author | : Cecile Jackson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005-07-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134727135 |
Key issues in gender studies and development today are explored in detail, from rural and urban poverty to population and family planning, resulting from the 1995 UN Conference on Women.
Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms
Author | : The Feminist Review Collective |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2005-07-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 113471887X |
Brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms.
Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies
Author | : Saturnino M. Borras Jr. |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1317988558 |
Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide. The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and environmental – has put the nexus between ‘rural development’ and ‘development in general’ back onto the center stage of theoretical, policy and political agendas in the world today. Confronting these issues will require (re)engaging with critical theories, taking politics seriously, and utilizing rigorous and appropriate research methodologies. These are the common messages and implications of the various contributions to this collection in the context of a scholarship that is critical in two senses: questioning prescriptions from mainstream perspectives and interrogating popular conventions in radical thinking. This book focuses on key perspectives, frameworks and methodologies in agrarian change and peasant studies. The contributors are leading scholars in the field of rural development studies: Henry Bernstein, Terence J. Byres, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Marc Edelman, Cristóbal Kay, Benedict Kerkvliet, Philip McMichael, Shahra Razavi, Ian Scoones and Teodor Shanin. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Shifting Burdens
Author | : Shahra Razavi |
Publisher | : Kumarian Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1565491432 |
* Details the effects of structural adjustment policies imposed on agriculture, and their effect on gender relations within rural areas in the developing world * Empirically grounded case studies from India, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam Over the past ten years neoliberal policy shifts in rural development across the globe have reduced the role of government, consigning the costs of services to the rural poor themselves. But what are the gender effects of this change? The contributors unravel the ways in which economic and social structures, institutions, and policy outcomes are mediated by gender as a social relationship, and consider the degree to which a "diversified livelihoods strategy," touted as the means by which rural families are struggling to improve their standard of living, accurately describes what is taking place on the ground.
Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development
Author | : Jane L. Parpart |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 0889369100 |
Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.