Gendering the World Bank: Neoliberalism and the Gendered Foundations of Global Governance

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
The World Bank......Page 19
Neoliberal development strategy in global governance......Page 25
Neoliberalism, the global political economy and gender analysis......Page 32
Structure of the book......Page 37
1 Discourse, Sex and Gender in Global Governance......Page 40
The role of interviewing......Page 42
'Discourse' as an approach to research......Page 43
'Gender' analysis as an approach to research......Page 47
A gender(ed) discourse analysis of neoliberalism, the World Bank and global governance......Page 55
Summary......Page 64
Conventions in economic analysis......Page 66
Neoliberalism as (mainstream) economic discourse......Page 77
Gender, neoliberal globalisation and the Post-Washington Consensus......Page 92
Summary......Page 98
3 Analysing the World Bank......Page 100
The structure of the World Bank......Page 101
Neoliberalism and the organisational culture of the World Bank......Page 116
The changing nature of Bank discourse......Page 119
Summary......Page 125
Introduction......Page 128
4 World Bank Policy-Making (1): Gender in/and the World Bank......Page 130
Gender in contemporary global governance: from WID to WAD to GAD......Page 131
Making the 'Business Case' for gender analysis in Bank work......Page 142
Situating gender and sex in Bank discourse......Page 147
Failing to make the business case for gender analysis in World Bank policy-making......Page 153
Summary......Page 161
5 World Bank Policy-Making (2): Reproducing (Economically Viable) Gender Norms......Page 163
Predicating, prescribing and reproducing neoliberal rationality......Page 164
Reproducing heterosexual (economic) viability in Bank discourse......Page 173
Summary......Page 186
6 World Bank Policy-Making (3): Gender, HIV/AIDS and Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 188
Racism, the West and HIV/AIDS......Page 189
Why HIV/AIDS policy-making?......Page 192
Why HIV/AIDS and Sub-Saharan Africa?......Page 193
The World Bank and HIV/AIDS......Page 197
The Bank, HIV/AIDS and gender in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 204
Summary......Page 215
The power of neoliberalism as discourse......Page 217
The gendered foundations of neoliberalism......Page 220
Gendering the World Bank......Page 223
Appendix 1 Interviewee Codes (Anonymised)......Page 228
Appendix 2 Schedule of Questions for Interview......Page 229
Notes......Page 235
References......Page 239
D......Page 251
E......Page 252
F......Page 253
G......Page 254
L......Page 255
N......Page 256
S......Page 257
W......Page 258