Gender myths and feminist fables
Subtitle: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development
By: edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison. and Ann Whitehead.
Contributors: Cornwall, Andrea, 1963-; Harrison, Elizabeth, 1963-; Whitehead, Ann, 1946-; University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies.
Series: Development and change book series
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405169370
Subjects: Women in development; Feminist theory; Feminism -- Political aspects; Sex role -- Sociological aspects
Notes: "First published as volume 38, number 1 of Development and Change."

Conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead; title: A bigger piece of a very small pie : intrahousehold resource allocation and poverty reduction in Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin; title: The construction of the myth of survival / Mercedes González de la Rocha; title: Earth mother myths and other ecofeminist fables : how a strategic notion rose and fell / Melissa Leach; title: Political cleaners : women as the new anti-corruption force? / Anne Marie Goetz; title: Resolving risk? marriage and creative conjugality / Cecile Jackson; title: Feminism, gender, and women's peace activism / Judy El-Bushra; title: Myths to live by? female solidarity and female autonomy reconsidered / Andrea Cornwall.