Women and gender equity in development theory and practice
Subtitle: institutions, resources, and mobilization
By: edited by Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield.
Contributors: Jaquette, Jane S., 1942-; Summerfield, Gale, 1948-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Women in development; Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions; Women's rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jane Jaquette and Gale Summerfield; title: Women, gender, and development / Jane Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt; title: Mainstreaming gender in international organizations / Elisabeth Prügl and Audrey Lustgarten; title: From "home economics" to "microfinance" : gender rhetoric and bureaucratic resistance / David Hirschmann; title: Contributions of a gender perspective to the analysis of poverty / Sylvia Chant; title: What is justice? : indigenous women in Andean development projects / Maruja Barrig; title: Gender equity and rural land reform in China / Gale Summerfield; title: Unequal rights : women and property / Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo; title: On loan from home : women's participation in formulating human settlements policies / Faranak Miraftab; title: In theory and in practice : women creating better accounts of the world / Louise Fortmann; title: Women's work : the kitchen kills more than the sword / Kirk R. Smith; title: Women's movements in the globalizing world : the case of Thailand / Amara Pongsapich; title: T-shirts to web links : women connect! communications capacity-building with women's NGOs / Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury, and Muadi Mukenge; title: Empowerment just happened : the unexpected expansion of women's organizations / Irene Tinker.