Sydney Calkin

TL;DR: The authors assesses feminist accounts of co-optation and appropriation in gender and development policy and conclude that although accounts of feminism's cooptation are flawed in their misrepresentation of a diverse and dynamic movement, the transformations wrought by these misrepresentations are real and profound.

TL;DR: The authors examine the representations of empowerment in visual (image and video) material from the Nike Foundation's "Girl Effect" campaign and conclude that the relations constructed in the 'Girl Effect' campaign between the empowered Western spectator and the yet-to-be-empowered Third World Girl work to erode bonds of solidarity and entrench structural inequalities by positioning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a feminist reading of Foucault's critique of human capital to examine the discursive terrain of the "Smart Economics" agenda and to understand the knowledge it produces about female bodies, subjectivities and agency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a political geography of abortion access, arguing that abortion access is an essential but overlooked site where gendered mechanisms of state control are enforced and contested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the confluence of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda with the visibility of gender issues in development and the resultant corporate agenda for the promotion of women and girls empowerment.