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Feminist futures : re-imagining women, culture and development
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- Creator
- edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 309 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781842770283, 1842770284, 9781842770290, 1842770292
- OCLC
- ocm50124508
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-298) and index.
- 1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian -- Maria's Stories / Maria Ofelia Navarrete -- The Woof and the Warp / Luisa Valenzuela -- Consider and Problem of Privatization / Anna Tsing -- Pt. 1. Sexuality and the Gendered Body -- 2. 'Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale / Yvonne Underhill-Sem -- 3. Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin America / Amy Lind and Jessica Share -- 4. Claiming the State: Women's Reproductive Identity and Indian Development / Rachel Simon Kumar -- 5. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water / Ifi Amadiume -- On Engendering a Better Life / Raka Ray -- Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: The Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development / Dana Collins -- Condoms and Pedagogy: Changing Global Knowledge Practices / Peter Chua -- Pt. 2. Environment, Technology, Science -- 6. Managing Future(s): Culture, Development, Gender and the Dystopic Continuum / David McKie -- 7. Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies / Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi -- 8. Imagining India: Religious Nationalism in the Age of Science and Development / Banu Subramaniam -- Conversations Towards Feminist Futures / Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt -- Knitting a Net of Knowledge: Engendering Cybertechnology for Disempowered Communities / Debashish Munshi and Priya A. Kurian -- Seeing the Complexity: Observations and Optimism from a Costa Rican Tourist Town / Darcie Vandegrift -- Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice / Light Carruyo -- Pt. 3. The Cultural Politics of Representation -- 9. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature / Ming-yan Lai -- 10. The Representation of the Mostaz'af/ 'the Disempowered' in Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Iran / Minoo Moallem -- 11. Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: Women, Culture and Development from a Francophone/Post-colonial Perspective / Anjali Prabhu -- The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being, Resources for Struggle / Linda Klouzal -- Culture and Resistance: A Feminist Analysis of Revolution and 'Development' / Julia D. Shayne -- Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution / John Foran