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" Women, international development, and politics : "
edited by Kathleen Staudt
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BL
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645181
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Women, international development, and politics : : the bureaucratic mire /\ edited by Kathleen Staudt
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| Edition Statement
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Updated and expanded edition
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| Series Statement
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Woman in the political economy
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xii, 356 pages ;; 23 cm
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1566395461
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: 9781566395465
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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Gender politics in bureaucracy: theoretical issues in comparative perspective / Kathleen Staudt -- Who needs [sex] when you can have [gender]? conflicting discourses on gender at Beijing / Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz -- Contradictions of a "women's space" in a male-dominant state: the political role of the commissions on the status of women in postauthoritarian Brazil / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Hierarchy and class in women's organizations: a case from Northern Mexico / Gay Young -- Can an aid bureaucracy empower women? / Karin Himmelstrand -- The adaptability of international development agencies: the response of the World Bank to women in development / Nüket Kardam -- The Inter-American Foundation and gender issues: a feminist view / Sally W. Yudelman -- The feminist agenda in population private voluntary organizations / Judith Helzner and Bonnie Shepard -- The Malawi case: enclave politics, core resistance, and "nkhoswe no. 1" / David Hirschmann -- Farming women, public policy, and the women's ministry: a case study from Cameroon / Barbara Lewis -- Tough row to how: women in Nicaragua's agricultural cooperatives / Rural Women's Research Team, Center for the Investigation and Study of Agrarian Reform (CIERA) -- Women in FAO projects: cases from Asia, the Near East, and Africa / Alice Carloni -- Getting to the Third World: agencies as gatekeepers / Katherine Jensen -- Planning social change: a misdirected vision / Cathy Small -- Mainstreaming women and development: four agency approaches / Rounaq Jahan
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| Abstract
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Reflects the interest in women's empowerment in developing countries demonstrated by the Beijing Conference. This book features an introductory essay, which focuses on the conflict over the term "gender" at the Beijing Conference, and the divisions between conservative women and feminists, and also between representatives of the North and South
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Women in development
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Women-- Government policy
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Women-- Political activity
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Mujeres en el desarrollo
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| Dewey Classification
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305.42
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HQ1240.W662 1997
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Staudt, Kathleen A
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