Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development

Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-19

  Cornwall, Andrea ^a   Harrison, Elizabeth ^a   Whitehead, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Encoding essentialisms Leach eco feminism, El Bushra women's peace activism, Goetz idea that women are less corrupt than men; Female solidarity and female autonomy key elements in feminist fables of women's liberation from male oppression; Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development; Gendered economic behaviour; Mercedes Gonz lez de la Rocha Mexican social anthropologist; Myth making and fable spinning within feminism; Politics of influence having more women in politics good for political systems; Power and the institutional context: implications for gender and development; Relationship between knowledge production, power relations and nature of feminism; Women, environment and development (WED)

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EID: 84889622385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306675.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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