The gender politics of development : essays in hope and despair / Shirin M. Rai.

By: Rai, Shirin M [author]
Language: English Publisher: New Delhi : New York : London ; New York : Zubaan ; Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: 216 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781842778388Subject(s): Women in development | Women -- Political activity | Feminism -- Political aspects | Women -- Political activity -- Developing countries | Women -- Political activity -- IndiaDDC classification: 320.9172
Contents:
Acknowledgements * Introduction * Nationalism and Nation-Building * Women and the Postcolonial State * Theorising Gender and Democratisation * Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? * Quotas in Context * Feminizing Global Governance * Knowledge and/as Power: A Gendered Critique of TRIPS * Networking across Borders: New Forms of Feminist Organising * Conclusion - What Hopes, Why Despair? Acknowledgements * Introduction * Nationalism and Nation-Building * Women and the Postcolonial State * Theorising Gender and Democratisation * Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? * Quotas in Context * Feminizing Global Governance * Knowledge and/as Power: A Gendered Critique of TRIPS * Networking across Borders: New Forms of Feminist Organising * Conclusion - What Hopes, Why Despair?
Summary: "In The Gender Politics of Development, Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states." "In chapters on key issues of nationalism and nation-building, the third wave of democratization, and globalization and governance, Rai argues that the gendered way in which nationalist state-building occurred created deep fissures and pressures for development. She goes on to show how women have engaged with institutions of governance in developing countries, looking in particular at political participation, deliberative democracy, representation, leadership and state feminism. Through this engagement, Rai claims, vital new political spaces have been created. Though Rai focuses in-depth on how these debates have played out in India, the book's argument is highly relevant for politics across the developing world."--Jacket.
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Acknowledgements * Introduction * Nationalism and Nation-Building * Women and the Postcolonial State * Theorising Gender and Democratisation * Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? * Quotas in Context * Feminizing Global Governance * Knowledge and/as Power: A Gendered Critique of TRIPS * Networking across Borders: New Forms of Feminist Organising * Conclusion - What Hopes, Why Despair?
Acknowledgements * Introduction * Nationalism and Nation-Building * Women and the Postcolonial State * Theorising Gender and Democratisation * Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? * Quotas in Context * Feminizing Global Governance * Knowledge and/as Power: A Gendered Critique of TRIPS * Networking across Borders: New Forms of Feminist Organising * Conclusion - What Hopes, Why Despair?


"In The Gender Politics of Development, Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states." "In chapters on key issues of nationalism and nation-building, the third wave of democratization, and globalization and governance, Rai argues that the gendered way in which nationalist state-building occurred created deep fissures and pressures for development. She goes on to show how women have engaged with institutions of governance in developing countries, looking in particular at political participation, deliberative democracy, representation, leadership and state feminism. Through this engagement, Rai claims, vital new political spaces have been created. Though Rai focuses in-depth on how these debates have played out in India, the book's argument is highly relevant for politics across the developing world."--Jacket.

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