Feminisms in development :  contradictions, contestations and challenges / 
Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison & Ann Whitehead, editors. 
 - London ;  New York :  New York :  Zed Books ;  Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,  2007. 
 - 253 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline /  Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions /  Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil /  Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme /  Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development /  'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective /  Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies /  Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming /  Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? /  Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business /  Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts /  SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? /  The NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements /  Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights /  Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy /  Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development /  The chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment /  Srilatha Batliwala and Deepa Dhanraj --  Sylvia Chant --  Cecilia Sardenberg --  Rosalind Eyben --  Everjoice Win --  Nandinee Bandyopadhyay with Swapna Gayen ... [et al.] --  Hilary Standing --  Ramya Subrahmanian --  Prudence Woodford-Berger --  Maitrayee Mukhopadhay --  Amina Mama --  Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler --  Islah Jad --  Deniz Kandiyoti --  Ruth Pearson --  Dzodzi Tsikata --  Maxine Molyneux. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1842778196 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781842778197 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1842778188 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9781842778180 (hbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006032575 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA676866  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013547610  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in development.<br/>Feminist theory.<br/>Sekseverschillen.<br/>Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling.<br/>Ontwikkelingspolitiek.<br/>Femmes dans le dâeveloppement.<br/>Thâeorie fâeministe.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Ontwikkelingslanden.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Gender myths Development policy 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1240  / .F288 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.4209172/4