Feminists Doing Development : A Practical Critique

by Edited by Marilyn Porter and Ellen Judd

• ISBN13: 9781856496940
• ISBN10: 1856496945
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-05-12
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

Has feminism transformed development studies? What happens to feminist theory and practice within the development industry? This book brings together a variety of feminist activists and academics, from both North and South, all engaged in development, to answer these questions. Including feminist projects from the "South in the North," the book explores how "global feminism" actually works in a variety of ways, through both activism and academic research.

Author Biography

Marilyn Porter is in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University.

Ellen Judd is in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations & Acronyms	v
Acknowledgements	vii
Biographical Notes	viii
Introduction Caught in the Web? Feminists Doing Development	1	(14)
Marilyn Porter
I. The Structures That Confine Us	15	(56)
NGOs in a Post-Feminist Era	17	(12)
Ines Smyth
Development and Women in Pakistan	29	(13)
Tahera Aftab
Little Progress, Small Niches: the WID Mandate in Japanese Foreign Aid	42	(15)
Sue Ellen Charlton
What I Know about Gender and Development	57	(14)
Wu Qing
II. Staying Feminist in Development	71	(56)
Research and Intervention: Insights from Feminist Health Action in Western India	73	(14)
Renu Khanna
The Right Connections: Partnering and Expertise in Feminist Work for Change	87	(14)
Barbara Cottrell
Women Organizing for Change: Transformational Organizing as a Strategy for Feminist Development	101	(11)
Collette Oseen
Taking Development in Our Hands: a Reflection on Indonesian Women's Experience	112	(15)
Nori Andriyani
III. Integrating the Local with the Global	127	(46)
Falling Between the Gaps	129	(13)
Fenella Porter
Valsa Verghese
Globalization and Development at the Bottom	142	(16)
Joyce Green
Cora Voyageur
Labour Rights, Networking, and Empowerment: Mobilizing Garment Workers in Bangladesh	158	(15)
Habiba Zaman
IV. Working with Global Structures	173	(54)
Women Organizing Locally and Globally: Development Strategies, Feminist Perspectives	175	(15)
Peggy Antrobus
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman
Responding to Globalization: Can Feminists Transform Development?	190	(16)
Joanna Kerr
The New Global Architecture: Gender and Development Practices	206	(12)
Isabella Bakker
Afterword: Opening Spaces for Transformative Practice	218	(9)
Ellen Judd
Bibliography	227	(13)
Index	240