Gender Myths And Feminist Fables The Struggle For Interpretive Power In Gender And Development Andrea Cornwall by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead 9781405169370, 9781444306675, 1405169370, 1444306677 instant download after payment.

This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.

• Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into ‘gender myths’ and ‘feminist fables’: women are more likely to care for the environment; are better at working together; are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to survive
• Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice
• Traces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge production
• Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women’s lives worldwide
• An informed analysis of how ‘gender’ has been transformed in its transfer into development policy and how many authors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlier work

Content:
Chapter 1 Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development (pages 1–19): Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead
Chapter 2 A Bigger Piece of a Very Small Pie: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Poverty Reduction in Africa (pages 21–44): Bridget O'Laughlin
Chapter 3 The Construction of the Myth of Survival (pages 45–65): Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha
Chapter 4 Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell (pages 67–84): Melissa Leach
Chapter 5 Political Cleaners: Women as the New Anti?Corruption Force? (pages 85–103): Anne Marie Goetz
Chapter 6 Resolving Risk? Marriage and Creative Conjugality (pages 105–126): Cecile Jackson
Chapter 7 Feminism, Gender, and Women's Peace Activism (pages 127–143): Judy El?Bushra
Chapter 8 Myths to Live by? Female Solidarity and Female Autonomy Reconsidered (pages 145–163): Andrea Cornwall