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Under Development: Gender

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Christine Verschuur

    1. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

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  2. Isabelle Guérin

    1. Institute of Research for Development (CESSMA), Université Paris Diderot, France

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  3. Hélène Guétat-Bernard

    1. National School of Agronomic Education (ENFA), France

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Part of the book series: Gender, Development and Social Change (GDSC)

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Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Gender, a Necessary Tool of Analysis for Social Change

    1. Introduction: Gender, a Necessary Tool of Analysis for Social Change

      • Isabelle Guérin, Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Christine Verschuur
      Pages 1-13

  3. Disciplines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. A History of Development Through a Gender Prism: Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives

      • Christine Verschuur
      Pages 17-41

    3. Feminist Anthropology Meets Development

      • Fenneke Reysoo
      Pages 42-60

    4. Gender and Demography: A Fertile Combination

      • Agnès Adjamagbo, Thérèse Locoh
      Pages 61-83

    5. The Sociologist and the “Poor Third World Woman”, or How an Approach Focusing on Gender Relations Has Helped Sociology of Development

      • Blandine Destremau, Bruno Lautier
      Pages 84-102

    6. Feminist Development Economics: An Institutional Approach to Household Analysis

      • Olasunbo Odebode, Irene van Staveren
      Pages 103-126

    7. Feminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Studies

      • Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra
      Pages 127-148

    8. Feminist Interventions in International Relations

      • Elisabeth Prügl
      Pages 149-166

  4. Specific Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Labour, Family and Agriculture: Gender and Development Issues, a North-South Perspective

      • Hélène Guétat-Bernard
      Pages 169-191

    3. The Seed and the Fertile Soil: Re-examining the Migration-Development Nexus through the Lens of Gender

      • Christine Catarino, Laura Oso
      Pages 192-210

    4. Ambivalent Engagements, Paradoxical Effects: Latin American Feminist and Women’s Movements and/in/against Development

      • Sonia E. Alvarez
      Pages 211-235

    5. Neoliberal Capitalism: An Ally for Women? Materialist and Imbricationist Feminist Perspectives

      • Jules Falquet
      Pages 236-256

    6. Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Crisis: a View from Feminist Economics

      • Lourdes Benería
      Pages 257-285

    7. Solidarity Economy Revisited in the Light of Gender: A Tool for Social Change or Reproducing the Subordination of Women?

      • Isabelle Guérin, Miriam Nobre
      Pages 286-305

    8. Conclusion: Body Politics and the Making and Unmaking of Gender and Development

      • Wendy Harcourt
      Pages 306-316

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 317-325
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Reviews

“Under Development: Gender is … clearly about concepts and viewpoints that influence our thinking on gender and development. … provide a history of feminist thought on development, summarising and analysing a body of literature very valuable to both old and new generations of those concerned with development issues and intentions. … provides a valuable set of signposts for those engaged in development work, of which we should all take notice, whether we are academics and researchers or practitioners, or both.” (Ines Smyth, Gender & Development, Vol. 23 (3), November, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

    Christine Verschuur

  • Institute of Research for Development (CESSMA), Université Paris Diderot, France

    Isabelle Guérin

  • National School of Agronomic Education (ENFA), France

    Hélène Guétat-Bernard

About the editors

Agnès Adjambago, Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France Sonia E. Alvarez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University, USA Blandine Destremau, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France Christine Catarino, independent scholar Jules Falquet, Université Paris Diderot, France Isabel Cristina Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Bruno Lautier, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Thérèse Locoh, French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), France Miriam Nobre, Women International and University of São-Paulo, Brazil Olasunbo Odebode, UNICEF Abuja, Nigeria Laura Oso, University of La Coruña, Spain Elisabeth Prügl, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland Fenneke Reysoo, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland Irene van Staveren, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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