FEMINIST FUTURES:: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

Book Details

• Author: John Foran, Kum-Kum Bhavnani

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• ISBN: 9788131609521

• Binding: Hardcover

• Release Date: 01-02-2019

• Number of Pages: 526

About the Book
Feminist Futures offers a comprehensive exploration of women’s evolving role in the Global South. The book bridges cultural studies, feminist theory, and development studies to examine how women, culture, and development intersect. A combination of scholarship and social activism, it highlights the ways in which women in the South are transforming our understanding of development.

This second edition introduces new perspectives and contributions from leading academics and a fresh generation of scholars and activists. The text spans a wide range of topics, from sexuality and gendered bodies to the environment, technology, and the politics of cultural representation. Through this, the book provides a radical and innovative framework for understanding these linkages in a global context.

Contents

• Introduction

  1. Women, Culture, and Development: An Overview

  • Visions One

    • Maria’s Stories – Maria Ofelia Navarrete

    • The Woof and the Warp – Luisa Valenzuela

    • Consider the Problem of Privatization – Anna Tsing

  • Part One: Sexuality and the Gendered Body
    2. Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale – Yvonne Underhill-Sem
    3. Revolution with a Woman’s Face? – Amy Lind
    4. Claiming the State – Rachel Simon-Kumar
    5. Abortion and African Culture – Jane Wambui Njagi
    6. Bodies and Choices – Ifi Amadiume

  • Visions Two

    • Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders – Jan Nederveen Pieterse

    • Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience – Dana Collins

    • Revolutionary Women’s Struggle and Leadership – Peter Chua

    • Reflections on Adolescent Girls, Agency, and Citizenship – Gauri Nandedkar

  • Part Two: Environment, Technology, Science
    7. Shell Scenarios, Science Fiction, and Storytelling Wars – David McKie
    8. Development Nationalism – Banu Subramaniam
    9. What Would Rachel Say? – Joni Seager
    10. Negotiating Human–Nature Boundaries – Priya A. Kurian

  • Visions Three

    • Alternatives to Development – John Foran

    • Dreams and Process in Development Theory – Light Carruyo

    • The Subjective Side of Development – Linda Klouzal

  • Part Three: The Cultural Politics of Representation
    11. Rural Mothers, Urban Whores, and Working Daughters – Ming-yan Lai
    12. Revisiting the Mostaz’af and the Mostakbar – Minoo Moallem
    13. Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter – Anjali Prabhu
    14. The Precarious Middle Class – Raka Ray

  • Visions Four

    • An Antipodean Take on Gender, Culture, and Development – Susanne Schech

    • On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture, and Development – Julie Shayne

    • Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Sustainable Development – Sangion Appiee Tiu

    • Reimagining Climate Justice – John Foran

  • Postscript

    • A Conversation About the Future of Women, Culture, and Development – Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian, and Debashish Munshi

About the Author(s)

• Kum-Kum Bhavnani: Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• John Foran: Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Priya A. Kurian: Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

• Debashish Munshi: Professor of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.