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Hardcover. Condición: New. 2nd Edition. Contents: 1. An introduction to women, culture and development/Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian. Visions I: 2. Maria s stories/Maria Ofelia Navarrete. 3. The woof and the warp/Luisa Valenzuela. 4. Consider the problem of privatization/Anna Tsing. I. Sexuality and the Gendered Body: 2. More Tragedies in out-of-the-way places: oceanic interpretations of another scale /Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem. 3 Revolution with a woman s face ? Family norms, constitutional reform and the politics of redistributionin post/neoliberal Ecuador/Amy Lind. 4 Claiming the state: revisiting women s reproductive identity in India s development policy/Rachel Simon-Kumar. 5 Abortion and African culture: a case study of Kenya/Jane Wambui Njagi.6 Bodies and choices: African matriarchs and Mammy Water/Ifi Amadiume. Visions II: 7. Empowerment: snakes and ladders/Jan Nederveen Pieterse. 8. Gendered sexualities and lived experience: revisiting the case of gay sexuality in women, culture and development/Dana Collins. 9. Revolutionary women s struggle and leadership: building local political power in rural areas in the age of neoliberal globalization/Peter Chua. What should I say about a dream? : reflections on adolescent girls, agency and citizenship/Gauri Nandedkar. II. Environment, Technology, Science: 7. New lenses with limited vision: Shell scenarios, science fiction, storytelling wars/David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian. 8. Development nationalism: science, religion and the quest for a modern India/Banu Subramaniam. 9. What would Rachel say?/Joni Seager. 10. Negotiating human nature boundaries, cultural hierarchies and masculinist paradigms of development studies/Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi. 11. The intersection of women, culture and development: conversations about visions for the future take two/Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt. visions III: 12. Alternatives to development: of love, dreams and revolution/John Foran. 13. Dreams and process in development theory and practice/Light Carruyo. 14. The subjective side of development: sources of well-being, resources for struggle/Linda Klouzal. III. The Cultural Politics of Representation: 12. Of rural mothers, urban whores and working daughters: women and the critique of neocolonial development in Taiwan s nativist literature / Ming-yan Lai. 13. Revisiting the mostaz af and the mostakbar/Minoo Moallem. 14. Mariama Bâ s So Long a Letter: women, culture and development from a Francophone or postcolonial perspective / Anjali Prabhu. 15. The precarious middle class: gender, risk and mobility in the new Indian economy / Raka Ray. Visions IV: 16. An Antipodean take on gender, culture and development co-operation/Susanne Schech. 17. On activist scholarship and women, culture and development/Julie Shayne. 18. Women, traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable development/Sangion Appiee Tiu. 19. Reimagining climate justice: what the world needs now is love, hope . and you/John Foran. 20. Postscript A conversation about the future of women, culture and development/Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi. Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book s contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the gendered body to the environment, technology and the cultural politics of representation. This revised and updated edition brings together leading academics, as well as a new generation of activists and scholars, to provide a fresh perspective on the ways in which women in the South are transforming our understanding of development. (jacket).…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Exterior has minor edge wear from normal use but is generally clean and square. Interior is tightly bound with occasional highlighting to text; these marks do not obscure the readability of text. Highly useful copy in good+ condition.

Blue Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Issued Without Dust Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed on the half-title page by the first co-editor to a Harvard economist. Hinges are starting, holding well; text clean. xiv, 275 p. Interesting provenance [otob: 4] Contents: Introduction : From the Edges of Development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani . [et al.] -- -- Pt. I. Refusing Representations of Development -- 1. October 17, 1961 / Moustafa Bayoumi -- 2. Ode to "Quasheba" : Resistance Rituals among Higgler Women in Jamaica / Hume N. Johnson -- 3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal : Gendered Developments in Bangkok / Ara Wilson -- 4. Dancing on the Edge : Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Krista Bywater -- 5. Resisting Westernity and Refusing Development / Molefi Kete Asante -- -- Pt. II. Emergent Discourses of Development -- 6. From Roosevelt in Germany to Bush in Iraq : Development's Discourse of Liberation, Democracy, and Free Trade / Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo -- 7. Migrants, Genes, and Socioscientific Phobias : Charting the Fear of the "Third World" Tag in Discourses of Development in New Zealand / Debashish Munshi, Priya A. Kurian -- 8. Overseas Filipino Workers' Tales, or, Globalization Discourses and Development / Ming-Yan Lai -- 9. Erratic Hopes and Inconsistent Expectations for Mexican Rural Women : A Critique of Economic Thinking on Alternatives to Poverty / Magdalena Villarreal -- 10. From Old to New Political Cultures of Opposition : Radical Social Change in an Era of Globalization / John Foran -- -- Pt. III. Fictions of Development -- 11. Mama Benz and the Taste of Money : A Critical View of a "Homespun" Rags-to-Riches Story of Post-Independence Africa / Lena Khor -- 12. History, Development, and Transformation in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People : A Conversation among Students of Development / Erin Kennedy . [et al.] -- 13. Urduja through the Looking Glass : A Response to Colonial Trauma / Tera Maxwell -- 14.Fictions of (Under)Development : Hunger Artists in the Global Economy / Francoise Lionnet. Inscribed By Co-Editor to Prominent Person. …

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 306 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 306 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.