Eye to Eye: Women Practising Development Across CulturesSusan Perry, Celeste Marguerite Schenck Zed Books, 2001 - 290 pages This book foregrounds the double role of culture in the develeopment process. First, it locates development practices within changing cultural contexts; second, it moves beyond the North/South dichotomy by focusing on the lived experience of development. The contributors present multiple perspectives on crucial debates within the field of gender and development, such as female genital mutilation, global capitalism and women's labour, and resistance to education and development policies by women at the grass-roots. The collection paints a vivid picture of development in practice: in parliaments, factories, courts, banks, classrooms, roadside stalls, guilds, athletic fields, publishing houses, hospitals, cinemas, novels and homes. The women desribed have exploited the interstices of the cultures they inhabit to articulate new possibilities for sustainable personal and community development. This book demonstrates why development policy must respond to cultural difference and illustrates the rewards of doing so. |
Contents
Practising Theory Eye to | 1 |
CHAPTER | 9 |
Womens Rights | 25 |
Responses | 41 |
Gender and the Politics of Fatwas in Bangladesh | 50 |
Gender Silences in the Narmada Valley | 71 |
Womens Organizations | 89 |
CHAPTER THREE | 105 |
Letters | 149 |
Abandoning Female Genital Cutting in Africa | 156 |
If Female Circumcision Did Not Exist | 171 |
Testimonial and the Stories from the Stolen Generation | 200 |
Developing Subjects | 235 |
EPILOGUE | 257 |
Notes on Contributors | 277 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 133 |
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Women, Culture and Development: International Feminism and Cultural ... Susan Perry,Celeste Schenck No preview available - 2000 |
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An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century P. W. Daniels No preview available - 2005 |