In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women.

Kriemild Saunders teaches sociology at St. John’s University.

Abbreviations

viii

Acknowledgements

x

Contributors

xi

Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism

1

(38)

I Aiding Development or Post-Development

39

(48)

Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development from a Post-(Post-?) Development Perspective

41

(16)

Jane Parpart

Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies

57

(12)

Kathleen Staudt

Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India

69

(18)

Ravina Aggarwal

II The Feminization of the Global Economy

87

(34)

Counter-geographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival

89

(16)

Saskia Sassen

Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a post-NAFTA Mexico

105

(16)

Marianne H. Marchand

III More Worldly Feminisms

121

(60)

Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-sac

123

(23)

Marnia Lazreg

Picture More at Variance: Of Desire and Development in the People's Republic of China

146

(13)

Tani Barlow

Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in Andean Communities

159

(22)

Frederique Apffel-Marglin

Loyda Sanchez

IV The Science Question in Development

181

(44)

Mad Cows and Sacred Cows

183

(16)

Vandana Shiva

Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development

199

(13)

Banu Subramaniam

James Bever

Peggy Schultz

Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference

212

(13)

Meera Nanda

V Stories From the Field

225

(56)

Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in Development Discourse

227

(16)

Patience Elabor-Idemudia

Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields

243

(20)

Piya Chatterjee

Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women's Strategies of Power and Place

263

(18)

Ramona Perez

VI Other Bodies

281

(50)

Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question

283

(15)

Wendy Harcourt

Reproductive Technologies: A Third World Feminist Perspective

298

(15)

Esther Wangari

Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica

313

(18)

Sylvia Marcos

References and Bibliography

331

(26)

Index

357

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