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The contributors to this volume work at the intersection of cultural studies, feminist studies, and critical development studies to articulate a new framework that they call Women, Culture, and Development. The editors trace its genealogies and potential in their introduction, and the several parts of the book ground it by applying it to a range of issues including sexuality and the gendered body; environment, technology and science; and the cultural politics of representation. A set of shorter essays, many of them by a new generation of scholars, introduce visions of the future through the prism of exciting new work in the field.

Kum-Kum Bhavnani and John Foran are both Professors of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Priya Kurian is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy, The University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Acknowledgements

ix

Notes on Contributors

x

Abbreviations

xvi

An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development

1

(40)

Kum-Kum Bhavnani

John Foran

Priya A. Kurian

WID, WAD, GAD ... WCD

4

(3)

Women, culture, development: three visions

7

(15)

VISIONS 1

Maria's Stories

22

(9)

Maria Ofelia Navarrete

The Woof and the Warp

31

(4)

Luisa Valenzuela

Consider the Problem of Privatization

35

(6)

Anna Tsing

PART ONE Sexuality and the Gendered Body

41

(88)

`Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale

43

(12)

Yvonne Underhill-Sem

Story of an accident

43

(1)

The tragedy of tragedies: where is culture?

44

(2)

Of site and situations

46

(1)

The everyday culture of resource politics in Wanigela

47

(3)

Accidents do happen

50

(2)

Tragedies in out-of-the-way places: matters of scale

52

(1)

A woman's body scarred

53

(2)

Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin America

55

(19)

Amy Lind

Jessica Share

The historical regulation of sexuality and gender in Latin America

58

(2)

Institutionalized heterosexuality and the disciplining of women's lives

60

(4)

LGBT movements and the politics of development

64

(4)

Queering development: LGBT activism and research in Latin America

68

(6)

Claiming the State: Women's Reproductive Identity and Indian Development

74

(15)

Rachel Simon Kumar

Gender identity and the Indian state

75

(3)

Women's economic identity and rights in the 1990s

78

(3)

Reproduction and developmental identity

81

(5)

Conclusion

86

(3)

Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water

89

(40)

Ifi Amadiume

Globalization and matriarchitarianism

89

(3)

Culturing girls -- Zambia and Nigeria

92

(3)

Gender, sexuality and power ambiguity

95

(3)

Mammy Water, sex and capitalism

98

(1)

Imagining choice or isolation?

99

(3)

Fragments and the matriarchal umbrella

102

(2)

Conclusion

104

(3)

VISIONS 2

On Engendering a Better Life

107

(5)

Raka Ray

Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders

112

(5)

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: The Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development

117

(7)

Dana Collins

Condoms and Pedagogy: Changing Global Knowledge Practices

124

(5)

Peter Chua

PART TWO Environment, Technology, Science

129

(78)

Managing Future(s): Culture, Development, Gender and the Dystopic Continuum

131

(15)

David McKie

Warping futures (1): Missing matter(s) and the new screen paranoia of the 1990s

132

(2)

Warping futures (2): Popular science and false worlds

134

(2)

Warping futures (3): First contacts, futures brokers and predator populations

136

(1)

Transgressive boundaries: planetary post-colonialism, kinship and triage

137

(3)

Reframing evolution: political economies of population control on another planet

140

(1)

Corporate and institutional scenarios: telling other tales of non-linear developments

141

(2)

Already imagined futures and the end of the official version

143

(3)

Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies

146

(14)

Priya A. Kurian

Debashish Munshi

Anthropocentric development: defining the term

147

(3)

Ecological rationality and the development project

150

(2)

Technoscience and its challenges

152

(4)

Transforming deep-rooted values

156

(2)

Conclusion

158

(2)

Imagining India: Religious Nationalism in the Age of Science and Development

160

(47)

Banu Subramaniam

The archaic and the modern

162

(2)

Women, culture, nation

164

(2)

Science, masculinism and the bomb

166

(2)

`Development nationalism'

168

(1)

Science, technology and development

169

(1)

Vaastushastra: a case study

170

(3)

Constructing the home and the world

173

(2)

Imagining India

175

(3)

VISIONS 3

Conversations Towards Feminist Futures

178

(10)

Arturo Escobar

Wendy Harcourt

Knitting a Net of Knowledge: Engendering Cybertechnology for Disempowered Communities

188

(6)

Debashish Munshi

Priya A. Kurian

Seeing the Complexity: Observations and Optimism from a Costa Rican Tourist Town

194

(6)

Darcie Vandegrift

Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice

200

(7)

Light Carruyo

PART THREE The Cultural Politics of Representation

207

(68)

Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature

209

(16)

Ming-yan Lai

Capitalist development and the rise of nationalist discourse

210

(2)

Urban whores, rural mothers and the moral order of nationalist discourse

212

(4)

Women and the ideological representation of neocolonial development

216

(3)

Working daughters and the critique of sexual commodification

219

(3)

Conclusion

222

(3)

The Representation of the Mostaz'af/ `the Disempowered' in Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Iran

225

(14)

Minoo Moallem

Not a class war but a war of position: the mostaz'af and the mostakbar/ `the powerful'

227

(3)

Cinema and post-coloniality

230

(2)

Mostaz'af in the post-revolutionary cinema

232

(1)

Children of Heaven and postmodern consumer capitalism

233

(1)

Do Zan and the revolution that did not take place

234

(3)

Conclusion

237

(2)

Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: Women, Culture and Development from a Francophone / Post-colonial Perspective

239

(36)

Anjali Prabhu

Literature and WCD

244

(1)

Articulating Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre in women, culture, development

245

(6)

Conclusions: literature and `languaging'

251

(5)

VISIONS 4

The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being, Resources for Struggle

256

(7)

Linda Klouzal

Culture and Resistance: A Feminist Analysis of Revolution and `Development'

263

(5)

Julia D. Shayne

Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution

268

(7)

John Foran

Bibliography

275

(24)

Index

299

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