Feminist post-development thought
Subtitle: rethinking modernity, post-colonialism & representation
By: edited by Kriemild Saunders.
Contributors: Saunders, Kriemild.
Series: Zed Books on women and development
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the US by Palgrave; Zed
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions; Feminist economics; Economic development
Description: "Feminist Post-Development Thought addresses the crucial question of what development means for women. Is it still their best hope of social progress and equality, or does it simply raise false expectations for the future? In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women. The broad field of women, gender and development is covered with particular attention to the following areas: 1. Mainstream Development, Alternative Development and the Post-development Challenge; 2. Gender, Globalization, Political Identity, Resistance and the Struggle to Survive; 3. Feminist Theory and Practice and the Significance of Difference; 4. Western Science, Local Knowledge and Environmental Sustainability; 5. Fieldwork, Ethnography and Participatory Approaches; and 6. Reproduction, Population and the Gendered Self. This range of themes allows for a much broader interrogation of development than the post-development critique of its general failure over the past 50 years, and contributes to the process of feminist perspectives shaping intellectual thinking on the subject."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-356)  and index.
Papers presented at a conference held 1998 at the City University of New York.
Table of contents: title: Lessons from the field : rethinking empowerment, gender and development from a post-(post-?) development perspective / Jane Parpart; title: Dismantling the master's house with the master's tools? : gender work in and with powerful bureaucracies / Kathleen Staudt; title: Trails of turquoise : feminist enquiry and counter-development in Ladakh, India / Ravina Aggarwal; title: Counter-geographies of globalization : feminization of survival / Saskia Sassen; title: Engendering globalization in an era of transnational capital : new cross-border alliances and strategies of resistance in a post-NAFTA Mexico / Marianne H. Marchand; title: Development : feminist theory's cul-de-sac / Marnia Lazreg; title: Picture more at variance : of desire and development in the People's Republic of China / Tani Barlow; title: Developmentalist feminism and neocolonialism in Andean communities / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Loyda Sanchez; title: Mad cows and sacred cows / Vandana Shiva; title: Global circulations : nature, culture and the possibility of systainable development / Banu Subramaniam, James Bever, Peggy Schultz; title: Do the marginalized valorize the margins? :exploring the dangers of difference / Meera Nanda; title: Participatory research : a tool in the production of knowledge in development discourse / Patience Elabor-Idemudia; title: Ethnographic acts : writing women and other political fields / Piya Chatterjee; title: Practising theory through women's bodies : public violence and women's strategies of power and place / Ramona Pérez; title: Body politics : revisiting the population question / Wendy Harcourt; title: Reproductive technologies : a Third World feminist perspective / Esther Wangari; title: Gender, bodies, and cosmos in Mesoamerica / Sylvia Marcos.