The gender politics of development : essays in hope and despair /

In The Gender Politics of Development Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states. In chapters on key issues of nationalism and nation-building, the third wave of democratization and globalization and governance, Rai argue...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rai, Shirin
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : London ; New York : New York : Zubaan ; Zed Books, Ltd. ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Women in development.
Women > Political activity.
Feminism > Political aspects.
Women > Political activity > Developing countries.
Women > Political activity > India.
Democratization.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the gender politics of development
  • 1. Gender, nationalism and 'nation-building'
  • 2. Women and the post-colonial state
  • 3. Theorizing gender and democratization
  • 4. Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state?
  • 5. Quotas in context
  • 6. Globalization, development and global governance
  • 7. Knowledge and/as power
  • 8. Networking across borders
  • Conclusion: what hopes, why despair?

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