Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development
By - Cornwall, Andrea
Floor
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Floor 1
Published
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Blackwell, Malden, MA, ©2008
ISBN 13 - 9781405169370
Book Status
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5 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Feminism Political aspects
Shelf No
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14
Call Number
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305.4209 GEN
Physical Description
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1 online resource ;vii173 pages
Notes
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Includes index
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; Tr