The Gender Politics of Development
Subtitle: Essays in Hope and Despair
Publisher: Zed Books; Zubaan; Zed Books, Ltd.; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 21, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781842778388
Subjects: Development studies; Gender Studies; Political ideologies; Essays; Political Process - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science; Feminism; Political aspects; Women in development; Women in politics; Sociology
Description: This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states. It argues that the gendered way in which nationalist statebuilding occured created deep fissures and pressures for development.