Overview
- Provides state of the art debates and research on gender and development
- Aims to open up the traditional boundaries of what is gender and development
- Unusual approach of critiquing core texts by various scholars which sets it apart from the competition
- Course potential for Gender and Women's Studies as well as Gender and Development
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Table of contents (44 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Dilemmas, Dialogues, Debates
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Institutions, Policies, Governmentality
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Globalization, Care, Economic Justice
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Gender, Science, Ecology
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About this book
With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, The Netherlands. She joined the ISS in 2011 after 20 years working at the Society for International Development as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. She has edited 10 books including her monograph Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development, winner of the 2010 Feminist Women Studies Association Book Prize. Harcourt is also editor of the Palgrave Series Gender, Development and Social Change.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development
Book Subtitle: Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice
Editors: Wendy Harcourt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-38273-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38272-6Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57697-5Published: 14 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38273-3Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 660
Topics: Development and Social Change, Gender Studies, Feminism, Development Studies, Human Rights