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Feminists doing development : a practical critique
Marilyn Porter,Ellen R. Judd +1 more
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In this article, the authors discuss the structures that confine us in women's work for change, and discuss the role of women in women empowerment and women empowerment in the development process.Abstract:
* Contents * 1. Introduction: Feminists doing development - Marilyn Porter. * Part 1: The structures that confine us * 2. NGOs in a Post-Feminist Era - Ines Smyth. * 3. Development and women in Pakistan - Tahera Aftab. * 4. The WID mandate in Japanese foreign aid - Sue Ellen Charlton. * 5. What I know about gender and development - Wu Qing. * Part 2: Staying feminist in development * 6. Insights from feminist health action in Western India - Renu Khanna. * 7. Partnering and expertise in feminist work for change - Barbara Cottrell. * 8. Women organising for change - Collette Oseen. * 9. Taking development in our hands: a reflection on Indonesian women's experience - Nori Andriyani. * Part 3: Integrating the local with the global * 10. Falling between the gaps - Fenella Porter and Valsa Verghese. * 11. Globalisation and development from the bottom - Joyce Green and Cora Voyageur. * 12. Mobilising garment workers in Bangladesh - Habiba Zaman. * Part 4: Working with global structures * 13. Women organising locally and globally - Peggy Antrobus and Linda Christiansen-Ruffman. * 14. Responding to globalisation: can feminists transform development? - Joanna Kerr. * 15. The new global architecture, gender and development practices - Isabella Bakker. * Afterword * 16. Afterword: opening spaces for transformative practice - Ellen Juddread more
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