Feminist Futures

Reimagining Women, Culture and Development
Herausgeber: Bhavnani, Kum-Kum; Munshi, Debashish; Kurian, Priya A; Foran, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 151mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781783606382
• ISBN-10: 178360638X
• Artikelnr.: 42834445

Autorenporträt

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology, global studies and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. John Foran is professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Priya A. Kurian is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Waikato. Debashish Munshi is professor of management communication at the University of Waikato.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition 1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development
Kum
Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian Visions I Maria's Stories
Maria Ofelia Navarrete The Woof and the Warp
Luisa Valenzuela Consider the Problem of Privatisation
Anna Tsing Part I: Sexuality and the Gendered Body 2. More '"Tragedies" in Out
of
the
Way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale'
Yvonne Underhill
Sem with Kaita Sem 3. 'Revolution with a Woman's Face'? Family Norms, Constitutional Reform, and the Politics of Redistribution in Post/Neoliberal Ecuador
Amy Lind 4. Claiming the State: Revisiting Women's Reproductive Identity in India's Development Policy
Rachel Simon
Kumar 5. Abortion and African Culture: A Case Study of Kenya
Jane Wambui Njagi 6. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water
Ifi Amadiume Visions II Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders
Jan Nederveen Pieterse Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: Revisiting the Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development
Dana Collins Revolutionary Women's Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in Rural Areas in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization
Peter Chua 'What Should I Say about a Dream?': Reflections on Adolescent Girls, Agency and Citizenship
Gauri Nandedkar Part II: Environment, Technology, Science 7. New Lenses with Limited Vision: Shell Scenarios, Science Fiction, Storytelling Wars
David McKie with Akanksha Munshi
Kurian 8. Development Nationalism: Science, Religion and the Quest for a Modern India
Banu Subramaniam 9. What Would Rachel Say?
Joni Seager 10. Negotiating Human
Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies
Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi 11. The Intersection of Women, Culture and Development: Conversations about Visions for the Future
Take Two
Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt Visions III Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution
John Foran Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice
Light Carruyo The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well
Being, Resources for Struggle
Linda Klouzal Part III: The Cultural Politics of Representation 12. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature
Ming
yan Lai 13. Revisiting the mostaz'af and the mostakbar
Minoo Moallem 14. Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter: 'Women, Culture and Development' from a Francophone or Postcolonial Perspective
Anjali Prabhu 15. The Precarious Middle Class: Gender, Risk and Mobility in the New Indian Economy
Raka Ray Visions IV An Antipodean Take on Gender, Culture and Development Co
operation
Susanne Schech On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development
Julie Shayne Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development
Sangion Appiee Tiu Reimagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope ... and You
John Foran Postscript: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development
Kum
Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi