Feminist Futures: Re-Imagining Women, Culture and Development
The contributors to this volume work at the intersection of cultural studies, feminist studies, and critical development studies to articulate a new framework that they call Women, Culture, and Development. The editors trace its genealogies and potential in their introduction, and the several parts of the book ground it by applying it to a range of issues including sexuality and the gendered body; environment, technology and science; and the cultural politics of representation. A set of...
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The editors (sociologists and political scientists from the U. of California at Santa Barbara and New Zealand's U. of Waikato) feel that discussions of culture and women need to be seen in the context of the consequences of a "global (mal)development." Ranging across multiple sites in the Third World, they present discussions of development that place women at the center and place culture on a par with political economy. Also central to the approach they promote is the understanding the production and reproduction cannot be separated in the lives of most women. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsAbbreviations1An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development1Visions 1Maria's Stories22The Woof and the Warp31Consider and Problem of Privatization35Pt. 1Sexuality and the Gendered Body412'Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale433Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin America554Claiming the State: Women's Reproductive Identity and Indian Development745Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water89Visions 2On Engendering a Better Life107Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders112Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: The Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development117Condoms and Pedagogy: Changing Global Knowledge Practices124Pt. 2Environment, Technology, Science1296Managing Future(s): Culture, Development, Gender and the Dystopic Continuum1317Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies1468Imagining India: Religious Nationalism in the Age of Science and Development160Visions 3Conversations Towards Feminist Futures178Knitting a Net of Knowledge: Engendering Cybertechnology for Disempowered Communities188Seeing the Complexity: Observations and Optimism from a Costa Rican Tourist Town194Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice200Pt. 3The Cultural Politics of Representation2079Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature20910The Representation of the Mostaz'af/ 'the Disempowered' in Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Iran22511Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: Women, Culture and Development from a Francophone/Post-colonial Perspective239Visions 4The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being, Resources for Struggle256Culture and Resistance: A Feminist Analysis of Revolution and 'Development'263Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution268Bibliography275Index299
