Reversed realities : gender hierarchies in development thought / Naila Kabeer.
By: Kabeer, Naila
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, 1994Description: xix, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0860913848; 0860915840 (pbk.).Subject(s): Women in development | Feminist theory | Sex role | Households | Birth control | Population policyDDC classification: 305.42 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 305.42 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016657 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Reversed Realities" uncovers the deeply entrenched, hence barely visible, biases which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to womens needs in current development policy.
Naila Kabeer traces the emergence of "women" as a specific category in development thought and examines alternative frameworks for analyzing gender hierarchies. She identifies the household as a primary site for the construction of power relations and compares the extent to which gender inequalities are revealed in different approaches to the concept of the family unit. The book assesses the inadequacies of the poverty line as a measuring tool and provides a critical overview of an issue that has been fiercely contested by feminists: population control. While feminists themselves have no unanimous view of the meaning of "reproductive choice," Kabeer argues that it is imperative for them to take a lead in the construction of population policy.
Bibliography: (pages 312-339) and index.
The emergence of women as a constituency in development -- Treating cancer with Bandaid? the theoretical underpinnings of WID -- Same realities: different windows: structuralist perspectives on women and development -- Connecting, extending, reversing: development from a gender perspective -- Benevolent dictators, maternal altruists and patriarchal contracts: gender and household economics -- Beyond the poverty line: measuring poverty and impoverishing measures -- 'And no-one could complain at that': claims and silences in social cost-benefit analysis -- Implementing the right to choose: women, motherhood and population policy -- Empowerment from below: learning from the grassroots -- Triple roles, gender roles, social relations: the political subtext of gender training frameworks.
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