The Women, Gender and Development Reader

The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array of global case studies.This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. A guide to further reading at the end of each chapter provides a foundation for further study. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.

Nalini Visvanathan is an independent researcher living in the Washington, D.C. area. Lynn Duggan is Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Nan Wiegersma is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts. Laurie Nisonoff is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Part 1  * Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan * The History of International Development: Concepts and Contexts - Shirin M. Rai * Financial Crises and the Impact on Women: A Historical Note - Jayati Ghosh * Gender and Development: Theoretical Perspectives - Shirin M. Rai * Women's Role in Economic Development - Ester Boserup * The invisible heart- care and the global economy - Nancy Folbre * Feminist Political Ecology Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee (GESEC)  * Women and Microcredit: A Critical Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan and Karla Yoder * Negotiating Multiple Patriarchies: Women and microfinance in South India - Kalpana Karunakaran * Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies, and Innovations - Gita Sen and Piroska Ostlin * Peace-Building And Reconstruction With Women: Refelctions On Afghanistan, Iraq, And Palestine - Valentine M. Moghadam * Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra Talpade Mohanty * Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?  Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod * The 'Gender Lens': A Racial Blinder? - Sarah C. White * Development's encounter with sexuality: essentialism and beyond - Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly * From Missionaries to Microcredit? 'Race', Gender and Agency in Neoliberal Development - Kalpana Wilson * Part 2 * Introduction - Lynn Duggan * Accounting For Women's Work: The Progress Of Two Decades - Lourdes Benería * 'In The Eyes Of A Child, A Father Is Everything': Changing Constructions Of Fatherhood In Urban Botswana? - Kavita Datta * Daughters, Decisions And Domination: An Empirical And Conceptual Critique Of Household Strategies - Diana L. Wolf * Subordination And Sexual Control: A Comparative View Of The Control Of Women - Gita Sen * Discarded Daughters: The Patriarchal Grip, Dowry Deaths, Sex Ratio Imbalances & Foeticide In India - Aysan Sev'er  * The 'Feminisation Of Poverty' And The 'Feminisation' Of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room For Revision? - Sylvia Chant  * Part 3 * Introduction - Laurie Nisonoff with Lynn Duggan and Nan Wiegersma * The Subordination Of Women And The Internationalization Of Factory Production - Diane Elson and Ruth Pearson * Maquiladoras: The View From The Inside - María Patricia Fernández-Kelly * Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild * Slavery And Gender: Women's Double Exploitation - Beth Herzfeld * Globalization And The Increase In Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side - Jean L. Pyle * The Korean Economic Crisis And Working Women - Haejin Kim And Paula B. Voos * Part 4 * Introduction - Nan Wiegersma * International Financial Architecture: A view from the kitchen - Diane Elson * 'One Step Forward- Two Steps Backward' From Labor Market Exclusion to Inclusion: a gender perspective on effects of the economic crisis in Turkey - Gülay Toksöz * Gender, Climate Change and Human Security: Lessons from Senegal - The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) * The Population Bomb is Back - with a Global Warming Twist - Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Román * Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women's unpaid work - Anesu Makina * The Right to Have Rights: Resisting Fundamentalist Orders - Deepa Shankaran * African Women's Movements Negotiating Peace - Ali Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa * 'I am Somebody!': Brazil's Social Movements Educate for Gender Equality and Economic Sustainability - Ruth Needleman * Capitalism and Socialism, Some Feminist Questions - Lourdes Benería * Part 5 * Introduction - Nalini Visvanathan * The Global Women's Movement: An Introduction - Peggy Antrobus * 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles - Chandra Talpade Mohanty * Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization - Aili Mari Tripp * The International Women's Commission of La Vía Campesina - Annette Aurélie Desmarais * Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum - Ayesha M. Imam  * Women's Community Organizing in Quito: The Paradoxes of Survival and Struggle - Amy Lind * Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's (RAWA) - Jennifer L. Fluri * Struggle, Perseverance, And Organization In Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones - Samanthi Gunawardana