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Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors draw from their experiences and research in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to illuminate the connections between women's well-being and globalization, environmental conservation, land rights, access to information technology, employment, and poverty alleviation.Highlighting key institutional issues, contributors analyze the two approaches that dominate the field: women in development (WID) and gender and development (GAD). They assess the results of gender mainstreaming, the difficulties that development agencies have translating gender rhetoric into equity in practice, and the conflicts between gender and the reassertion of indigenous cultural identities. Focusing on resource allocation, contributors explore the gendered effects of land privatization, the need to challenge cultural traditions that impede women's ability to assert their legal rights, and women's access to bureaucratic levers of power. Several essays consider women's mobilizations, including a project to provide Internet access and communications strategies to African NGOs run by women. In the final essay, Irene Tinker, one of the field's founders, reflects on the interactions between policy innovation and women's organizing over the three decades since women became a focus of development work. Together the contributors bridge theory and practice to point toward productive new strategies for women and gender in development.
Contributors. Maruja Barrig, Sylvia Chant, Louise Fortmann, David Hirschmann, Jane S. Jaquette, Diana Lee-Smith, Audrey Lustgarten, Doe Mayer, Faranak Miraftab, Muadi Mukenge, Barbara Pillsbury, Amara Pongsapich, Elisabeth PrÜgl, Kirk R. Smith, Kathleen Staudt, Gale Summerfield, Irene Tinker, Catalina Hinchey Trujillo
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield 1
I. Institutional Opportunities and Barriers 15
Women, Gender, and Development / Jane S. Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt 17
Mainstreaming Gender in International Organizations / Elisabeth Prugl and Audrey Lustgarten 53
From "Home Economics" to "Microfianace:; Gender Rhetoric and the Bureaucratic Resistance / David Hirschmann 71
Contributions of a Gender Perspective to the Analysis of Poverty / Sylvia Chant 87
What is Justice? Indigenous Women in Andean Development Projects / Maruja Barrig 107
II. Livelihood and Control of Resouces 135
Gender Equity and Rural Land Reform In China / Gale Summerfield 137
Unequal Rights: Women and Property / Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo 159
On Loan from Home: Women's Participation in Formulating Human Settlements Policies / Faranak Miraftab 173
In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World / Louise Fortmann 191
Women's Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword / Kirk R. Smith 202
III. Women's Mobilization and Power 217
Women's Movements in the Globalizing World: The Case of Thailand / Amara Pongsapich 219
T-Shirts to Web Links: Women Connect! Communications Capacity-Building with Women's NGOs / Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury, and Muadi Mukenge 240
Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women's Organizations / Irene Tinker 268
Acronyms 303
Bibliography 306
Contributors 352
Index 357
