Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 7
INTRODUCTION: INTERROGATING DEVELOPMENT......Page 10
Feminist analysis versus women and development......Page 11
Commonalities and difference......Page 14
Historical change and gender relations......Page 15
Gender interests and emancipatory projects......Page 16
Domestic groups: cooperation, conflict and struggle......Page 17
Feminisms and green fundamentalism......Page 18
Gendered economies: relations of production and reproduction......Page 19
Feminism as deconstruction......Page 21
References......Page 23
Part I INTERESTS, IDENTITIES AND STRATEGIES......Page 26
Introduction......Page 27
The mainstreaming agenda......Page 28
Mainstreaming in research: from subordination to disaggregation......Page 30
Advocacy and accuracy: lies, damned lies and gender statistics......Page 31
Instrumentalism and opportunism......Page 32
Mainstreaming: the depoliticisation of gender?......Page 33
The bracketing of gender in the Platform for Action......Page 34
The trouble with gender......Page 35
‘Gender, the deconstruction of women’......Page 36
Declaring war on women’s natures?......Page 37
The straw man of patriarchy—and other feminist universals......Page 39
In the name of women......Page 41
Conclusion......Page 42
Notes......Page 43
References......Page 44
Introduction......Page 47
Instrumentalism......Page 48
The feminisation of poverty......Page 52
The poverty consensus......Page 55
Food consumption......Page 58
Life expectancy......Page 59
Assets......Page 60
Household income......Page 61
Poverty experienced......Page 63
Gendered subjectivities......Page 64
Whose perceptions and representations?......Page 67
Conclusions......Page 68
Notes......Page 69
References......Page 70
Women’s movements and female collective action......Page 75
Why women’s movements appear when they do......Page 76
What are women’s movements?......Page 78
Female collective action and types of institutionalised agency: the autonomy issue......Page 80
Independent movements......Page 81
Associational linkage......Page 82
Directed mobilisations......Page 83
Women’s interests......Page 85
Democracy and interests......Page 89
Women’s interests and strategic visions in the South......Page 92
Notes......Page 95
References......Page 97
Part II HOUSEHOLDS AND INDUSTRY......Page 101
Introduction......Page 102
Constructing the ‘black box’: the story of the unified household......Page 103
ll-being differentials .........Page 105
Comparative advantage and gender-related inflexibilities in intra-household labour allocation......Page 107
Non-unified households: the emergence of alternative approaches in economics......Page 110
Conclusion......Page 114
References......Page 115
Introduction......Page 119
Developing an approach to gender and famine......Page 121
The entitlement approach and gender......Page 123
Colonial policy background to gender relations......Page 127
Gender and mortality in some British Indian districts......Page 131
Gender outcomes in present-day agricultural households......Page 134
Discussion and conclusions......Page 137
Notes......Page 140
References......Page 142
6 GENDER, POWER AND CONTESTATION......Page 147
Battles over the household......Page 148
Contests over subjectivity......Page 150
Power and resistance: conceptual conundrums......Page 153
Conclusion......Page 158
Notes......Page 159
References......Page 161
Part III MONEY AND MARKETS......Page 164
Introduction......Page 165
The Harrod-Domar growth model: basic considerations......Page 167
Gender disaggregation......Page 169
Gendered parameters......Page 170
Extending the model to incorporate social reproduction......Page 174
The co-ordination of production and social reproduction in the growth process......Page 175
References......Page 178
‘Nimble fingers’ revisited: a response to the critics......Page 181
Industrialisation and women: from the margins to the centre......Page 182
Women and industrialisation: deconstructing diverse trends......Page 187
Gender and industrialisation: strategies for action......Page 192
Notes......Page 194
References......Page 196
9 FEMALE AND MALE GRAIN MARKETING SYSTEMS......Page 199
Markets as institutions......Page 200
The gender construction of staple food markets......Page 203
Markets and gender subordination......Page 210
The impact of market participation in domestic reproduction......Page 212
Policy issues......Page 215
Technical change and livelihoods......Page 216
The adaptive and productive inefficiency of gender roles in commerce......Page 217
Political organisation......Page 219
Notes......Page 220
References......Page 221
Part IV POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 225
10 GENDER ANALYSIS OF FAMILY PLANNING......Page 226
The emerging debate......Page 227
Feminist critiques......Page 229
Reproduction......Page 230
Science and reproductive technologies......Page 231
Family planning programmes......Page 233
The rationale of family planning programmes......Page 235
Reproductive rights......Page 237
Quality of care......Page 240
Conclusions......Page 241
References......Page 243
11 SILVER BULLET OR PASSING FANCY?......Page 248
Women and population programmes......Page 250
Relationships between population and other women’s programmes......Page 252
Female schooling and fertility......Page 254
Girls’ schooling and women’s autonomy......Page 257
Conclusion......Page 262
Notes......Page 263
References......Page 264
Introduction......Page 269
Forestry......Page 270
Water resources management......Page 273
Urban environmental management......Page 276
Legal and institutional reforms......Page 278
Women, environment and development......Page 281
Ecofeminism......Page 283
Typical outcomes at field level......Page 285
Towards gender analysis in environmental research and policy......Page 286
Notes......Page 289
References......Page 290
INDEX......Page 295