Under Development: Gender

Introduction: Gender, a Necessary Tool of Analysis for Social Change; Isabelle Guérin, Hélène Guétat-Bernard and Christine Verschuur PART I: DISCIPLINES 1. A History of Development through a Gender Prism. Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives; Christine Verschuur 2. Feminist Anthropology Meets Development; Fenneke Reysoo 3. Gender and Demography. A Fertile Combination; Agnès Adjamagbo and Thérèse Locoh 4. The sociologist and the 'poor Third World woman', or how an approach focusing on gender relations has helped sociology of development; Blandine Destremau and Bruno Lautier 5. Feminist Development Economics an Institutional Approach to Household Analysis; Irene van Staveren and Olasunbo Odebode 6. Feminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Debates; Isabel Cristina Jaramillo 7. Feminist Interventions in International Relations; Elisabeth Prügl PART II: SPECIFIC ISSUES 8. Labour, family and agriculture: gender and development issues, a North-South perspective; Hélène Guétat-Bernard 9. Revisiting the Migration/Development Nexus from a Gender Perspective. Articulating Production and Reproduction; Christine Catarino and Laura Oso 10. Ambivalent Engagements, Paradoxical Effects: Latin American Feminist and Women's Movements and/in/against Development; Sonia E. Alvarez 11. Neoliberal Capitalism: an Ally for Women? Materialist and Imbricationist Feminist Perspectives; Jules Falquet 12. Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Crisis: a View from Feminist Economics; Lourdes Beneria 13. The solidarity economy revisited in the light of gender: a tool for social change or reproducing the subordination of women?; Isabelle Guérin and Mariam Nobre 14. Conclusion. Body politics and the making and unmaking of gender and development; Wendy Harcourt