Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

by Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead, Andrea Cornwall

The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement. Speaking from within academic institutions, social movements, development bureaucracies and national and international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842778196
• ISBN13: 9781842778197
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 8.5"