About the Book
In this groundbreaking collection of 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.
Contents
Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism / Kriemild Saunders
Part I: Aiding Development
• Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective / Jane Parpart
• Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies / Kathleen Staudt
• Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India / Ravina Aggarwal
Part II: Locating Women/Locating Work
• Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival / Saskia Sassen
• Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico / Marianne Marchand
Part III: More Worldly Feminisms
• Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac / Marnia Lazreg
• Picture more at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China / Tani Barlow
• Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities / Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez
Part IV: The Science Question in Development
• Mad Cows and Sacred Cows / Vandana Shiva
• Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development / Banu Subramaniam, James Bever and Peggy Schulz
• Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference / Meera Nanda
Part V: Stories From the Field: Theorizing Action/Acting on Theory
• Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse / Patience Elabor-Idemudia
• Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields / Piya Chatterjee
• Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women Strategies of Power and Place / Ramona Perez
Part VI: Other Bodies
• Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question / Wendy Harcourt
• Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective / Esther Wangari
• Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica / Sylvia Marcos
About the Author / Editor
Kriemild Saunders teaches sociology at St. John’s University-Staten Island. Her wide-ranging interests include sexuality, queer practices, gender, development, race and class relations.
