Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)
Language: English
Pages: 308
ISBN: 0415157900
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In the wake of the 4th World Conference on Women this volume brings together leading gender and development scholars who interrogate the last twenty years of work in this area.
Feminist Visions of Development throws fresh light on key issues including:
* gender and the environment
* education
* population
* reproductive rights
* industrialisation
* macroeconomic policy
* poverty.
Inspired by recent feminist theoretical work, it re-examines previous structural analysis and opens the way for further research in the field.
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from 9,700 to 106,000 in seven years. Although there are abundant resources of ‘cheap’ women’s labour in African countries, political instability and relative underdevelopment of the infrastructure have precluded the location of manufacturing production for export in this region. The problems go beyond the lack of physical infrastructure, including not just factory 176 FEMINIST VISIONS OF DEVELOPMENT buildings, roads and telecommunications or even ports of entry and exit but also an
position of women is getting worse or better. Rather they are suggested as ways of analysing particular conjunctions shaping women’s lives, in the hope that this will help clarify the strategic possibilities facing women in those situations. (Elson and Pearson, 1981:31) Much of the debate and discussion which followed has focused on the key variable —are women getting access to waged work in industrial factories? The rapid increase and spread of labour intensive industrialisation not only made
(see Dwyer and Bruce, 1988); and ‘there appears to be sufficient intra-household inequality to throw out standard estimates of overall inequality by an order of 30–40 per cent’ (Kanbur and Haddad, 1994:445). Household income is composed of a number of different streams; men and women cooperate in joint production and they engage in separate income earning activities, they consume jointly and as individuals. The variations in men’s and women’s incomes stem from a number of sources; women have
change in the historical process, emphasising their potential to drive economic, political and social change; the economist Diane Elson (1992), writing about FEMINIST VISIONS OF DEVELOPMENT 111 gender and structural adjustment, indicates that there are transformational possibilities inherent in crisis. One such possibility is that famine interacts with the emerging rules and patterns of behaviour which comprise institutional innovations and, for example, alters the institutional constraints on
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