Women, international development, and politics : the bureaucratic mire / edited by Kathleen Staudt.

Other author Staudt, Kathleen A.
Format Book
EditionUpdated and expanded ed.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.
Descriptionxii, 356 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Women in development.
Women--Government policy.
Women--Political activity.

SeriesWoman in the political economy
Woman in the political economy. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Gender politics in bureaucracy: theoretical issues in comparative perspective / Kathleen Staudt -- Who needs [sex] when you can have [gender]? conflicting discourses on gender at Beijing / Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz -- Contradictions of a "women's space" in a male-dominant state: the political role of the commissions on the status of women in postauthoritarian Brazil / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Hierarchy and class in women's organizations: a case from Northern Mexico / Gay Young -- Can an aid bureaucracy empower women? / Karin Himmelstrand -- The adaptability of international development agencies: the response of the World Bank to women in development / Nüket Kardam -- The Inter-American Foundation and gender issues: a feminist view / Sally W. Yudelman -- The feminist agenda in population private voluntary organizations / Judith Helzner and Bonnie Shepard -- The Malawi case: enclave politics, core resistance, and "nkhoswe no. 1" / David Hirschmann -- Farming women, public policy, and the women's ministry: a case study from Cameroon / Barbara Lewis -- Tough row to how: women in Nicaragua's agricultural cooperatives / Rural Women's Research Team, Center for the Investigation and Study of Agrarian Reform (CIERA) -- Women in FAO projects: cases from Asia, the Near East, and Africa / Alice Carloni -- Getting to the Third World: agencies as gatekeepers / Katherine Jensen -- Planning social change: a misdirected vision / Cathy Small -- Mainstreaming women and development: four agency approaches / Rounaq Jahan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 97003227
ISBN1566395461 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1240 .W662 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold