Feminists Doing Development
Subtitle: A Practical Critique
Contributors: Marilyn Porter (Editor); Ellen Judd (Editor)
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: May 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781856496933
Subjects: Development studies; Feminism; Social Science; Social Change In Underdeveloped Areas; Sociology; Developing countries; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Women's Studies; Women's Studies - General; Feminists; Women in development
Description: "This book brings together a variety of feminist activities and academics, from both North and South, engaged in development, to answer these questions. Each describes her project and its feminist rationale, and analyses it through three fundamental challenges: the problem of making a feminist agenda work within development agencies, including the difficulties of finding funding and the constraints imposed by others; the ethical and methodological issues raised by feminism - including the differences between women and the legitimacy of studying 'the Other'; and the challenge of internationsl feminism: looking for new ways to work together for global change without imposing 'Western feminism' on Southern women."--Jacket.