Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges
The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement. Speaking from within academic institutions, social movements, development bureaucracies and national and international NGOs, the contributors highlight...
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The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement. Speaking from within academic institutions, social movements, development bureaucracies and national and international NGOs, the contributors highlight on-going battles for interpretation and the unequal power relations within which these battles take place. They engage with the challenges of achieving solidarity in the context of increasingly polarised geo-political relations, and advance a diversity of critiques of simplified ideas about gender, and how these ideas come to be interpreted in institutional policies and practices.
Acknowledgements viiiIntroduction: feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges Andrea Cornwall Elizabeth Harrison Ann Whitehead 1The struggle over interpretationGender myths that instrumentalize women: a view from the Indian front line Srilatha Batliwala Deepa Dhanraj 21Dangerous equations? How female-headed households became the poorest of the poor: causes, consequences and cautions Sylvia Chant 35Back to women? Translations, resignifications and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg 48Battles over booklets: gender myths in the British aid programme Rosalind Eyben 65Not very poor, powerless or pregnant: the African woman forgotten by development Everjoice J. Win 79'Streetwalkers show the way': reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective Nandinee Bandyopadhyay Swapna Gayen Rama Debnath Kajol Bose Sikha Das Geeta Das M. Das Manju Biswas Pushpa Sarkar Putul Singh Rashoba Bibi Rekha Mitra Sudipta Biswas 86Institutionalizing gender in developmentGender, myth and fable: theperils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies Hilary Standing 101Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts: some reflections on gender mainstreaming Ramya Subrahmanian 112Gender mainstreaming: what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? Prudence Woodford-Berger 122Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away: feminists marooned in the development business Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay 135Critical connections: feminist studies in African contexts Amina Mama 150SWApping gender: from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? Anne-Marie Goetz Joanne Sandler 161Looking to the future: challenges for feminist engagementThe NGO-ization of Arab women's movements Islah Jad 177Political fiction meets gender myth: post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratization' and women's rights Deniz Kandiyoti 191Reassessing paid work and women's empowerment: lessons from the global economy Ruth Pearson 201Announcing a new dawn prematurely? Human rights feminists and the rights-based approaches to development Dzodzi Tsikata 214The chimera of success: gender ennui and the changed international policy environment Maxine Molyneux 227Notes on Contributors 241Index 247
