Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Postcolonialism and Representation -Hardcover

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