Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

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Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian, Debashish Munshi
Zed Books Ltd., Oct 15, 2016 - Social Science - 528 pages

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.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements and dedications
Abbreviations
An introduction to women culture and development
Marias stories Maria Ofelia Navarrete
The woof and the warp Luisa Valenzuela
oceanic interpretations of another
Revolution with a womans face? Family norms constitutional reform and
revisiting womens reproductive identity in Indias development
Shell scenarios science fiction storytelling wars
science religion and the quest for a modern India
What would Rachel say?
Negotiating humannature boundaries cultural hierarchies and masculinist
of love dreams and revolution John Foran
women and the critique
Revisiting the mostazaf and the mostakbar
women culture and development from

a case study of Kenya
African matriarchs and Mammy Water
snakes and ladders Jan Nederveen Pieterse
building local political power
rural areas in the age of neoliberal globalization Peter Chua
gender risk and mobility in the new Indian economy
An Antipodean take on gender culture and development cooperation Susanne
Postscript A conversation about the future of women culture and development
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Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology, global studies and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

John Foran is professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Priya A. Kurian is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Waikato.

Debashish Munshi is professor of management communication at the University of Waikato.

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