FEMINISMS IN DEVELOPMENT: CONTRADICTIONS, CONTESTATIONS AND CHALLENGES; ED. BY ANDREA CORNWALL.
Publisher: ZED BOOKS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 253
Description: This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism?s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presente.